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World Service,14 Mar 2024,26 mins

A bid to buy TikTok

World Business Report

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Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Steven Mnuchin said he is arranging a team of investors to purchase Chinese social media giant TikTok. Our presenter Roger Hearing will be looking at how significant this move will be to stop Chinese influence in America. There is a defeat in the UK courts for the Australian who claims to be the man who founded Bitcoin. And Denmark moves to conscript women into the armed forces for the first time as part of a beefing up of its defences - but there are fears about what that will do to the labour market. (Picture: Demonstration against crackdown legislation on TikTok on Capitol Hill. Credit: Reuters)

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