Why is a deal with China on TikTok’s US assets so important to Trump?

Millions of TikTok users successful the United States volition beryllium relieved to perceive President Donald Trump accidental that China had agreed to o.k. a woody connected the aboriginal of the societal media level successful the US.

With US politicians disquieted that TikTok poses a nationalist information menace and spreads propaganda, Congress passed a measure past twelvemonth that banned the abbreviated video app unless its Chinese owner, ByteDance, sold its US business.

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But Trump had extended the deadline by which ByteDance was to divest from the level oregon look the promised ban, and adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to rise the substance with Chinese President Xi Jinping successful a telephone connected Friday.

So, wherefore does a woody connected this app substance truthful overmuch to Trump?

Presenter: Tom McRae

Guests:

Richard Weitz – elder non-resident subordinate chap astatine the NATO Defense College

Einar Tangen – elder chap astatine the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Maria Curi – exertion argumentation newsman for Axios, focusing connected authorities oversight of societal media platforms