US President Donald Trump on Thursday, September 17, extended a deadline to China -based Baitidance to distribute the US assets of the short -wide app Techtok, despite any law, which ordered the sale or shutdown without any progress.
Trump signed an executive order pushing Thursday’s deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously indicated.
The Republican president had already refused twice from the federal enforcement of a law, which was mandatory for the sale or shutdown of trick, which was about to be implemented in January, which was absent to sales.
Trump has said he wants to maintain the app, which helped him with young voters in the 2024 presidential election operating in the United States.
He has also expressed hope that Chinese President Xi Jinping will approve an agreement that protects the app, though it is unclear to what extent the topic has been highlighted in the ongoing talks between the two countries to resolve the tariff dispute.
“We are grateful to President Trump’s leadership and help to ensure that tickets are available,” Tactok said in a statement published on his website.
The company said it was working with the office of US Vice President JD Venice on the matter.
“It’s more time to make a good deal,” said White House spokesman Karoline Levit, a White House spokesman at a briefing on Thursday. He added that the White House lawyer and the Justice Department believe that the extension is on a strong legal basis.
“President Trump does not want to get darkened,” he said, adding that the administration will ensure that sales will be stopped and protects US consumers’ data in the next three months.
Trump said on Tuesday that he would probably extend the deadline. “Maybe China has to get approval, but I think we will get it,” he told reporters in Air Force One. “I think President XI will eventually approve it.”
Under a law of 2024, Tektok needed to shut down the operating until January 19 unless Chinese parents of Teltok showed significant progress towards distribution or sale of the app’s US assets.
Trump began his second term on January 20 as president and did not choose to enforce the law. It increased the deadline for the first time in early April, and then by June 19 last month.
In March, Trump said he would be willing to reduce revenue on China to deal with Baitidance to sell a short video app used by 170 million Americans.
An agreement this spring was underway that would include the ticket’s US operations in a new US -based firm, which is operating by the majority ownership and US investors, but then China indicated that China did not approve it after the announcement of rates on Chinese goods.
Some democratic lawmakers say that Trump has no legal authority to expand the deadline and has suggested that the agreement under consideration will not meet the legal requirements.
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