Trump’s administration is expected to extend the deadline of 17 September again to sell to the US Fortue to the US Astaters of Short Video Tiktok or Close it, the sources were mentioned to Reuters because interviews in the US-Chinese entered the next day.
If it was allowed, it would be the fourth retribution provided by US President Donald Trump of the federal enforcement of the law, which originally provided the Statedance until January 2025 to sell or close the popular social media platform.
According to Reuters, Trump said last month that the buyer had us sorted into the application and could further extend the deadline. On Sunday, however, he was unclear when he asked about the future of the application.
“Maybe or maybe not, we’re negotiating tiktok right now. We can let it die, or we don’t know, it depends on China,” Trump quoted. “It doesn’t matter too much. I’d like to do it for kids,” he added.
Sources said that the agreement is not expected before September 17th.
The White House did not respond immediately to the request for comment on the expected extension.
If the extension is awarded, it would indicate the unwillingness to close the application used by 170 million Americans.
US and Chinese representatives discussed the tiktoko, trade and economy during the day of the Madrid interviews, said the head of the Treasury State Treasury official, because diplomacy between the two largest economies in the world.
US Ministry of Finance Scott Bessnt and US sales representative Jamieson Greer launched business interviews with Chinese Vice Přezir He Lifeng and the best Chinese business negotiator Li Chenggang on Sunday in Spain.
While China Hawks in Washington had long worried that Beijing could use Tiktok to spy on, blackmail or censored Americans, Trump said he wanted to save the application.
The progress in the agreement was slow, with any sharing of the valuable tiktoku algorithm with the US buyer, which requires approval from Beijing.
In the spring there was an agreement in the works. This would start US operations in the US, US companies, majority -owned and operated by US investors, but it would be suspended after China said it would not approve it after Trump’s announcement on steep tariffs on Chinese goods.
Tiktok was not discussed in previous rounds of business interviews in the US in Geneva, London and Stockholm.
The source said Tiktok’s public integration as an item in the program when the Ministry of Finance announced that the latest interviews were giving the political coverage of Trump’s administration for further expansion, which may be annoyed by the Republicans and Democrats in Congress who ordered the sale of Tiktoku.
Trump launched his second term as President on January 20 and decided not to resolve the law requiring the sale or closure of US assets in the US. For the first time, he extended the deadline to the beginning of April, then from May to June and for the third time to September.
(With Reuters inputs)
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