(Reuters) – China is ending an antitrust probe into Google, as trade talks between Beijing and Washington picked up over TikTok and Nvidia amid rising tensions between the two countries, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

The move signals a tactical shift by Beijing, redirecting regulatory focus to Nvidia as leverage in the U.S.-China trade talks and sending a message of flexibility to Washington by ending the probe into Google, the newspaper said.

China’s State Administration for Market Regulation, which opened the investigation against Google in February, has now decided to drop it, the report said citing two people briefed on the decision.

Google declined to comment to the FT. The company, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation and China’s State Council did not imm

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