TikTok is receiving surprising support from unlikely quarters, but it remains unclear whether the app will remain online in the United States come Sunday

TikTok’s moves follow a frosty hearing in the US Supreme Court last week, which has cemented expectations that it will face a ban starting Sunday

China’s RedNote — also known as Xiaohongshu — and Lemon8 have become the top two most downloaded apps in the US this week

The short video app is facing a January 19 deadline for a ban in the US, unless its Chinese owner ByteDance divests its US operations

Chinese state media says the development could lead to “overwhelmingly unfavourable consequences” for Taiwan and global chip supply chains

The app and its Chinese parent have maintained that selling off US operations was not possible as it would be a complicated process that would also be prohibited by Beijing

Despite the Biden Administration’s push to finalise those rules, however, their implementation will come down to President-elect Donald Trump who takes office in a little over a week

Huang’s statements triggered an $8 billion meltdown in the four biggest quantum computing shares in the US

A brutal price war between automakers and millions of dollars worth of government subsidies fuelled a record boom in sales of EVs in China last year

Brazilian authorities probing BYD’s labour practices in the country say the carmaker brought hundreds of Chinese workers on irregular visas to build the factory

This is the second time BYD has overtaken Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles in a quarter

The incoming US president described his Chinese counterpart as a strong and powerful man, adding that they were both already communicating through aides