TikTok sell-or-ban law gets Biden's approval, starting 9-month countdown

Chinese-owned video platform vows to prevail in a court challenge

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Chinese parent company ByteDance has 270 days to sell short-video platform TikTok or face a ban in the U.S. © Reuters

YIFAN YU, Nikkei staff writer

PALO ALTO, California -- TikTok could be banned in the U.S. if the company fails to cut ties with Chinese parent ByteDance within nine months, after President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Wednesday.

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