WASHINGTON šC U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would be willing to reduce tariffs on China to get a deal done with TikTok¡¯s Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the short video app used by 170 million Americans.
ByteDance has an April 5 deadline to find a non-Chinese buyer for TikTok or face a U.S. ban on national security grounds that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law.
The law is the result of concern in Washington that TikTok¡¯s ownership by ByteDance makes it beholden to the Chinese government and that Beijing could use the app to conduct influence operations against the United States and collect data on Americans.
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