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In the next few minutes we're expecting to hear from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Blinken arrived in China on Earlier the pair met in Beijing to mark the end of Blinken's three day trip to China, with Xi telling him that the two countries should be partners, not rivals.
Wednesday, just hours after US President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that gives TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance nine months to sell its stake in the app or be banned in the US. We'll be bringing you the key lines from Blinken's news conference and you'll be able to watch it live at the top of this page, so stay with us.
Some 170 million Americans use TikTok every month, making the US its largest market.
The legislation, which received widespread bipartisan support in the US, had been introduced because of concerns TikTok might share user data with the Chinese government. Washington is also concerned that Beijing could use the app to fuel misinformation.
TikTok has repeatedly denied claims that the Chinese government has control over ByteDance.
Last month, China's foreign ministry criticised the law as "clearly a bullying act", and said the move would "inevitably come back to bite the United States".
Read more about TikTok here and how likely it is that it will be banned.
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