Trump signs order on TikTok to pave way for US ownership

Donald Trump has signed an enforcement bid connected TikTok, which volition let the app to proceed to run successful the United States.

The US president held talks with China's President Xi Jinping past week - wherever the brace discussed the last presumption of a deal.

The app was ordered to unopen down for American users by January 2025 if its Chinese proprietor - Beijing-based tech steadfast ByteDance - didn't merchantability its assets successful the country.

The prohibition was delayed 4 times by Mr Trump.

The deal, which vice president JD Vance said was valued astatine astir $14bn (£10.5bn), volition spot TikTok's US operations tally by a caller joint-venture company, with ByteDance holding little than 20% of the stock, a elder White House authoritative said anterior to the woody being signed.

"There was immoderate absorption connected the Chinese side, but the cardinal happening that we wanted to execute is that we wanted to support TikTok operating, but we besides wanted to marque definite that we protected Americans' information privateness arsenic required by law," Mr Vance said.

Mr Trump has repeatedly credited TikTok with helping him triumph re-election.

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