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Trump Delays TikTok Ban Again as a Deal Takes Shape

NYT > Business > Media · Lauren Hirsch, Emmett Lindner and Sapna Maheshwari · last updated

President Trump on Tuesday extended for the fourth time the deadline for when TikTok must be separated from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States.

The extension to mid-December could be Mr. Trump’s last for the video app. He and other officials said this week that they had reached a framework for a deal with China to address national security concerns about ByteDance and its ties to Beijing.

“We have a deal on TikTok,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “We have a group of very big companies that want to buy it.” He is set to speak Friday with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, on Friday to “confirm everything up,” he said.

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The U.S. Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into law a measure banning TikTok if it weren’t sold by its Chinese ownership. But now-President Donald Trump gave the service a reprieve, and a sale of its U.S. operations appears imminent.

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