President Donald Trump on Monday instructed that a deal has been reached with China to maintain TikTok operational within the United States, the conclusion of a yearslong effort that started throughout Trump’s first time period.
“The big Trade Meeting in Europe between The United States of America, and China, has gone VERY WELL! It will be concluding shortly,” Trump mentioned Monday in a post on Truth Social. “A deal was also reached on a ‘certain’ company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save. They will be very happy! I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday.”
Chinese and US diplomats have been assembly this week in Madrid to debate commerce and different issues. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, main the most recent spherical of commerce talks with China on behalf of the United States, had mentioned that TikTok was one of many topics more likely to be mentioned.
Trump a number of instances has prolonged a self-imposed deadline to achieve a deal with China to promote at the very least a part of its US TikTok enterprise to an American-backed proprietor. A bipartisan invoice handed by Congress and signed by former President Joe Biden banned TikTok within the United States until its China-based proprietor divested its stake within the US belongings of the social media firm.
The deadline had most lately been prolonged to September 17.
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