US, Chinese officials did not discuss TikTok in London talks, Bessent says

WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday that U.S. and Chinese negotiators meeting in London this week did not discuss the disposition of TikTok as a June 19 deadline looms for China-based ByteDance to divest the short video platform or face a U.S. shutdown.

"I have no visibility into TikTok. I can tell you it was not discussed at the meetings in London," Bessent told a U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing.

The meetings in London focused instead on clarifying the details for a U.S.-China tariff truce and easing export controls on Chinese rare earth minerals and magnets and certain U.S. technology goods and aircraft engines.