Blinken affirms that he did not talk about the possible veto of TikTok in the US during his meeting with Xi in China

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The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, assured today in Beijing that he did not speak in his conversations during his trip to China about the possible US veto of the popular video application TikTok.

“TikTok did not come up during these conversations,” Blinken said at a news conference in Beijing at the end of his official visit, during which he met with his counterpart, Wang Yi, and the country's president. , Xi Jinping.

However, Blinken did convey his concern to Chinese leaders about what the United States considers unfair trade practices and asked for equal conditions for the Asian country.

Blinken stressed that American companies need a level playing field in China and denounced “unfair economic practices” in the Asian country.

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In any case, the diplomat stressed that the United States “does not seek economic decoupling” with China.

Xi received Blinken in Beijing today, emphasizing that the United States must “be true to his word” in order to solve the problems still to be resolved in the bilateral relationship.

The president noted that China and the United States have enough room to develop and prosper, and that Beijing would like to see a United States that is “confident, open, prosperous, developing.”

“In the same way, we hope that the United States can take a positive view of China's development. Relationships will truly stabilize, improve and move forward when that happens,” he asserted.

Blinken's visit became strained after the US Senate approved a bill that will force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell the video application TikTok within nine months if it does not want the platform to be banned in the United States.

Tiktok's parent company, ByteDance, made it clear that it has no intention of selling the application despite US legislation.

Earlier this week, TikTok – which, like Western services such as Google, Facebook, X or Instagram, is blocked in China, where ByteDance operates a similar application called Douyin – already announced that it will challenge this new law in court, which considered “unconstitutional.”