Amidst growing calls in the US to ban TikTok, owned by China-based company ByteDance, US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Sunday announced that lawmakers will be moving forward with legislation to “protect Americans from the technological tentacles of the Chinese Communist Party.”
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the historic agreement for Air India to purchase over 200 American-made aircraft from Boeing. Biden noted how the sale will support over one million American jobs across 44 states, and help Air India meet growing demands for air transportation in India, read a White House statement.
“I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no – again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity — with these recent takedowns,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters.
The US said that it “strongly opposes” any unilateral attempt to advance territorial claims, adding that it is “closely” monitoring the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the aftermath of clashes between militaries of India and China in the Arunachal Pradesh sector.
