TikTok bill threatens to shut app out of US market

The United States Senate passed legislation on Tuesday requiring widely used social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the US market, a move that Beijing has previously denounced strongly.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin didn't provide further comment on the bill at Wednesday's daily news conference.

"I and my colleagues and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce have previously made clear China's principled position," he told reporters.