Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump held their first phone talks in four years Friday.
According to Trump, he spoke to Xi about Tiktok, hours before the Supreme Court upheld a law to ban the social media platform in the United States in less than 48 hours.
Trump said on his Social Platform of Truth, “I hope we resolve many disorders in combination and fix them immediately. “
“We have discussed advertising balance, fentanyl, tiktok and many other topics. President XI and I will do everything we can to make the world more non-violent and safer!”
The call between Trump and XI on Friday came here just before the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Friday to uphold a federal law that bans Tiktok unless its China-based parent company, Bytedance, sells the app from here on Sunday. The judges decided that the app’s ties to China posed significant national security risks, outweighing considerations about Tiktok’s loose speech and its 170 million American residents. Users.
A TikTok sale does not seem imminent. Even though existing users will retain the app after the law goes into effect on January 19, new downloads will be banned and updates will be paused to be available. The Justice Department noted in court records that this would eventually render the app unusable.
The resolution marks an escalation in US efforts to respond to security disruptions related to foreign-owned technology platforms.
The call also comes amid claims across the Chinese government that it “forced” the expansion of nuclear weapons as a U. S. official issued a caution over China’s weapons of mass destruction program.
China’s state-run central television (CCTV) showed that the verbal exchange between Trump and XI took their position “on the evening of January 17,” the additional main points about the discussion were not without delay.
During his first term, Trump took a hardline stance against China, launching a protracted trade war that imposed heavy tariffs on Chinese imports and reshaped economic relations between the world’s two largest economies.
Trump threatened to impose 60 % customs tariffs on all Chinese imports in the United States. But in the future he also altered his relations with XI and warned that China could simply arbitrate foreign crises such as war in Ukraine.
The phone call marks a moment of remarkable engagement between the two leaders.
Trump said in a December interview with Meet The Press who has been communicating with XI since he won the elections. Trump said in the interview that he has “a very intelligent relationship” with the Chinese leader. He said they didn’t talk about Taiwan still talk about other issues.
CCTV said in a statement: “We are in a position of discussion and communication with the new US administration, take good care of disputes, expand mutually favorable cooperation, and jointly announce the stable, healthy and sustainable progression of China-US relations. “
“China has always viewed and developed China-U.S. relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation.”
Beijing announced earlier in the day that Xi would dispatch Vice President Han Zheng to represent China at Trump’s inauguration on Monday, January 20.
This is upcoming news and will be updated with more information.
Update: 01/17/25, 11:03 AM: This article has been updated with more information.
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