“The Chinese government will, according to law, examine and approve relevant matters involving TikTok, such as the export of technology as well as the licensing of intellectual property,” Wang said, adding that Washington and Beijing agreed that Bytedance would entrust a partner with TikTok U.S.’s user data and content security.

The Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Wednesday said he is concerned by reports a U.S.-China framework deal to shift app TikTok's American assets to U.S.

The strange saga of the TikTok ban may soon be coming to an end. “We have a deal on TikTok,” the president said on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal has a few more details on the proposal:

From Trump’s first ban attempt to a 2025 blackout, TikTok’s U.S. battle with Washington, data privacy fears, and a last-minute deal shows how close it came to collapse.

On TikTok, the president keeps effectively saying that he’s decided he’s not going to enforce federal law in this area for the next few months.

TikTok’s U.S. operations would be acquired by a consortium that includes Oracle under a deal that President Trump is set to discuss with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. The debut also faced an immediate setback: a flood of negative responses, many from left-wing influencers, that turned every video’s comment section into an anti-Trump sounding board.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an agreement between the U.S. and China to keep TikTok operating in the United States, a breakthrough in months-long talks between the two biggest economies as they seek to defuse a wide-ranging trade war that has unnerved global markets.