Trump says TikTok sale deal will be in place before Saturday deadline
US President Donald Trump has said a deal for TikTok’s Chinese parent firm to sell the platform will be in place before a deadline on Saturday.
The April 5th deadline was set by the president when he entered office in January, with ByteDance having until then to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok’s US business or face a ban on national security grounds.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late on Sunday, Mr Trump said “we have a lot of potential buyers ”, and there was “tremendous interest in TikTok ” and that he would “like to see TikTok remain alive ”.
It has been reported that TikTok’s existing non-Chinese shareholders have emerged as the front-runners to takeover the firm’s US business from Beijing-based Bytedance.
Миналата година Съединени американски щати одобриха закон, който съобщи, че Bytedance би трябвало да продаде видео платформата, която се употребява от към 170 милиона американци или да се изправи пред възбрана в страната, с цел да се опасява, че китайс...
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