Beijing, China:
China on Monday urged the United States to listen to “rational voices” on social media platform TikTok, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds took effect.
“We hope that the US side will seriously listen to rational voices and provide an open, fair, just and non-discriminatory business environment for market entities from all countries operating in the United States,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Business.
“TikTok has been operating in the United States for many years and is widely loved by American users,” Mao said.
“It has played a positive role in promoting domestic employment and boosting consumption in the US,” she added.
TikTok restored service in the United States on Sunday after briefly going dark, with newly elected President Donald Trump, who retakes power on Monday, credited with making the reversal possible.
The outgoing administration of President Joe Biden had previously said it would not enforce any ban.
TikTok was shut down in the United States late Saturday as a deadline loomed for Chinese owners ByteDance to sell its U.S. subsidiary to non-Chinese buyers.
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