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The leaders of the House Select Committee on China will huddle Wednesday with Disney CEO Robert Iger and take a closer look at Hollywood’s censoring its films to appease the Chinese Communist Party.
The committee chairman, Rep. Mike Gallager, is taking a handful of lawmakers to Los Angeles for the sitdown with Mr. Iger and other Hollywood players, according to sources close to the committee.
The meetings are private and intended to give the entertainment industry a venue to speak candidly without fear of retribution from China over meeting with the lawmakers, according to a source familiar with the committee’s plans.
Mr. Gallagher, Wisconsin Republican, is a prominent China hawk who has co-sponsored a bill to ban TikTok and previously threatened to haul Hollywood up to Capitol Hill. His re-election campaign website said in 2020 if Hollywood executives, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and the NBA were not willing to have a conversation with Congress about Chinese influence then Mr.
