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It looks similar President Donald Trump has reached a woody with China connected TikTok.
Trump said successful a Truth Social station Monday that a woody was reached "on a 'certain' institution that young radical successful our Country precise overmuch wanted to save."
The medication was facing a Sept. 17 deadline to either divest TikTok's U.S. concern oregon unopen down the societal media app successful the country.
Trump said helium volition talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping connected Friday.
Last year, Congress passed a instrumentality prohibiting companies specified arsenic app store operators Apple and Google from distributing TikTok successful the U.S. fixed its presumption arsenic a "foreign adversary-controlled application." Companies would look fines for not complying.
Trump has antecedently spoken astir his qualms with TikTok, telling CNBC successful an interrogation past twelvemonth that helium believed the level was a nationalist information threat.
In January Trump signed an enforcement bid giving ByteDance 75 much days to marque a deal. Further extensions came by mode of enforcement bid in April and in June.
The president has antecedently said he'd beryllium unfastened to Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison oregon Tesla CEO Elon Musk buying TikTok successful the U.S. Artificial quality startup Perplexity has submitted a bid for an acquisition, arsenic has businessman Frank McCourt's Project Liberty net advocacy group, CNBC reported successful January.
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