Bob Iger and Tim Cook among leaders meeting lawmakers in California to talk China this week

A group of ten House lawmakers, from the bipartisan select committee investigating the Chinese Communist Party, will be on a three-day trip to California this week. Their schedules will be packed with private meetings with top tech and media industry figures, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and other power brokers in Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

Disney has been accused of ignoring Beijing’s human rights abuses and obeying censorship demands in exchange for access to the lucrative Chinese market. The delegation will meet with Iger at the Disney lot in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday to discuss the company’s relationship with Beijing.

The lawmakers will also convene with other producers and screenwriters to discuss China’s demands of the entertainment industry.

The group will head to Silicon Valley for meetings with Microsoft President Brad Smith and Kent Walker, Alphabet’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer. They’ll also meet with executives from Palantir and Scale AI.

The group will start Friday at Apple headquarters with Cook before hosting a discussion on Russia-China relations with former Defense Secretary James Mattis and Stanford fellow Oriana Skylar Mastro.

The lawmakers will also meet with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, though it is not clear when.

The delegation is “intended to just hear mostly from them about how they’re thinking about various issues.”

The trip comes as U.S. lawmakers attempt to develop a cohesive policy platform to respond to intellectual property, trade, and national security issues stemming from China.

Gallagher has said he plans to call Iger and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to testify before the committee on their working relationships with Beijing, though he also expressed willingness to go speak to them directly.