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.
Mr. Gallagher, Wisconsin Republican, is a prominent China hawk who has cosponsored a bill to ban TikTok and previously threatened to haul Hollywood up to Capitol Hill. His reelection campaignsaid 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. Gallagher believed lawmakers needed to subpoena them.
“I think we can have a productive conversation with Disney, with the NBA, with Apple,” Mr. Gallagher said recently when pressed by PBS about his campaign comments. “I genuinely want to understand how they think about doing business in China. We have to have that conversation, difficult though it may be at times.”
The lawmakers are looking for answers about censorship decisions and other concessions made by Hollywood to pacify China’s communist government to gain access to the foreign market.
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