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Business Matters: TikTok buyout plan

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15/03/2024 GMT

TikTok buyout plan

BBC World Service - Business Matters, TikTok buyout plan

Former Trump official Steve Mnuchin puts forward plan to buy TikTok app

Former United States Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has announced plans to rally investors in the hopes of buying the popular video-sharing app TikTok.

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.

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.

And robot taxis are introduced to Los Angeles for the first time.

Roger will be joined throughout the programme by two guests on opposite side of the world:  Andy Uhler, Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas Energy Institute and Columbia University's Centre on Global Energy Policy  in Austin, Texas, and Nga Pham, journalist and film-maker in Taipei.  

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