Washington President Donald Trump officially extended the deadline to keep the application on Tiktok social networks available in the United States until December 16, giving time to finish the agreement announced Monday after interviews between US government officials and the Chinese government.
The executive decree signed Tuesday by Trump was the fourth time that he has circumvented federal law to extend the deadline For the Tiktok associated with China, to sell its assets to an American company or face a ban. The deadline of origin was on January 19 of this year, one day before Trump took the oath for his second term.
Trump was asked Tuesday on the framework agreement he announced a day earlier and repeated that he would discuss Tiktok with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday. He said that there are companies who wish to buy the application of social media belonging to Bytedance and that the details of his potential contenders would be announced soon.
I hate to see value like the one thrown out the window, said Trump leaving the White House, with his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, for a state visit to the United Kingdom.
The framework came out of a meeting in Madrid which ended on Monday between the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Deputy Prime Minister He Lifeng, among other officials.
Bessent told journalists that the objective was to change Tiktoks’ assets to the American property of his operations in America, although he refused to discuss the details of the framework.
Li Chenggang, representative of international trade in Chinas, told journalists that the parties had reached basic consensus to resolve in cooperation Problems related to TiktokReduce obstacles to investment and promote related economic and commercial cooperation.
