Is TikTok’s time up in the U.S.?
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: As U.S. and Chinese officials hold trade talks in Spain’s capital, the deadline approaches for TikTok, which U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to ban over security worries. Then, the U.S. and U.K. have lined up a string of deals aimed at speeding up nuclear power projects. And, Ghana is the world’s largest importer of used clothing, but about 40% is too damaged to resell. How can the problem be addressed?
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| 0:38.6 | Is TikTok's time up in the U.S. as a deadline looms for its Chinese owner to sell? |
| 0:44.7 | Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Sarah Rogers. Good morning. So we begin in Spain and Madrid where the US and Chinese officials are holding more talks |
| 0:56.0 | in the latest attempt to end a trade war between the world's two biggest economies. In July, |
| 1:01.0 | they struck a deal to extend their tariff truce until November. But Donald Trump has also threatened to ban social media platform TikTok over security worries |
| 1:09.2 | with a deadline due to expire on Wednesday. |
| 1:12.2 | The BBC's Katie Silver's been taking a look. |
| 1:15.0 | They are trying to keep a very fractured US-China trade relationship from collapsing, |
| 1:20.6 | especially given all of the talks that we've had in recent months when it comes to tariffs. |
| 1:24.1 | Now, part of the conversation is definitely going to be TikTok. |
| 1:26.6 | The deadline for the |
| 1:27.9 | Chinese owner of TikTok, that is bite dance, to find a buyer in the US or face a ban, is Wednesday. |
| 1:33.8 | It's expected to be delayed for a fourth time or extended, but that is certainly something |
| 1:38.3 | that is looming, and we have seen earlier this year, TikTok taken offline for about 12 hours, |
| 1:43.0 | given all of these tensions. When it comes to |
| 1:45.3 | this particular part of the conversation, President Trump has told reporters, we may let TikTok die |
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