“We have a buyer for TikTok, by the way,“ Trump said in an interview on Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
The president also said he would likely need “China approval” for the sale, “and I think President Xi (Jinping) will probably do it.”
A federal law requiring TikTok’s sale or ban on national security grounds was due to take effect the day before Trump’s inauguration on January 20. But the Republican, whose 2024 election campaign relied heavily on social media and who has said he is fond of TikTok, put the ban on pause.
Tech experts quickly described the TikTok kerfuffle as a symbol of the heated US-China tech rivalry.
“I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok,“ Trump told NBC News in early May. “If it needs an extension, I would be willing to give it an extension.”
He said in May that a group of purchasers was ready to pay ByteDance “a lot of money” for TikTok’s US operations.
ByteDance has confirmed talks with the US government, saying key matters needed to be resolved and that any deal would be “subject to approval under Chinese law.
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