Trump extends TikTok shutdown deadline for fourth time after reaching framework deal with China
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK Associated Press WASHINGTON AP President Donald Trump formally extended the deadline to keep the social media app TikTok available in the United States until Dec giving time to complete the framework of the deal informed Monday after talks between American and Chinese executive administrators The executive order signed on Tuesday by Trump was the fourth time he has bypassed federal law to prolong the deadline for the China-associated TikTok to sell its assets to an American company or face a ban The original deadline was Jan of this year a day before Trump took the oath of office for his second term Trump was required Tuesday about the framework deal he disclosed a day earlier and repeated that he would discuss TikTok with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday He has stated there are companies that want to buy the social media app owned by ByteDance and that details about its prospective suitors would be reported soon Related Articles Republicans unveil a bill to fund the cabinet through Nov Democrats call it partisan Senate Democrats raise concerns over Pentagon plan to use military lawyers as immigration judges Parents of teens who died by suicide after AI chatbot interactions to testify to Congress ICE sweeps in the current era part of Patriot focus on sanctuary cities like Boston Private school for Native Hawaiians vows to defend admissions protocol from conservative strategist I hate to see value like that thrown out the window Trump disclosed as he departed the White House with his wife first lady Melania Trump for a state visit to the United Kingdom The framework came out of a meeting in Madrid that concluded Monday between U S Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng among other bureaucrats Bessent advised reporters that the goal was to switch TikTok s assets to U S ownership for its operations in America though he declined to discuss the details of the framework Li Chenggang China s international deal representative advised reporters the sides have reached basic framework consensus to cooperatively resolve TikTok-related issues reduce stake obstacles and promote related economic and deal cooperation The U S president warmed to TikTok and the prospect of keeping it alive under the belief that it helped him to win younger voters in the presidential balloting Still the law mandating its sale in the U S was premised on the achievable shield risks the app poses in its collection of records The prolonged negotiations between the U S and China over TikTok might ultimately mean little as its novelty has slowly faded commented Syracuse University political science professor Dimitar Gueorguiev in a declaration The U S China deal on TikTok may look like a breakthrough but it risks being a Pyrrhic domination Gueorguiev declared Its famous algorithm once seen as uniquely powerful has lost much of its mystique copycat efforts show that the secret was not the code itself but TikTok s early-mover advantage and grid effects Any U S buyer is therefore purchasing area share and user base not transformative mechanism
