US President Donald Trump on Thursday extended a time limit for the China-based sub-bidle on September 17, despite a law, there is a time limit to divide the American property of the Short-Vidyo app Tiktok, which made the sale or shutdown compulsory without significant progress.
Tusrap Pushing the Thursday’s deadline for 90 days, signed an executive order, a step that he had earlier indicated.
The Republican President had already given a vengeance from the federal enforcement of a law twice, which had shut down the sale or shutdown. Tikokok It was going to be effective in January, significant progress in the direction of a sales was absent.
Trump has said that he wants to keep the app, helping him to woo young voters in the 2024 presidential election, who were active in the US.
He has also expressed optimism that the Chinese President Xi Jinping The app will approve a deal that preserves the app, although it is not clear how important the subject has performed in the ongoing conversation between the two countries to resolve the tariff dispute.
“We are grateful to the leadership of President Trump and support that Tiktok is available to ensure that Tiktok is available,” Tikokok said in a statement posted on its website.
The company said that it is continuing to work with the office of American Vice President JD Vance on the matter.
“This is longer to make a good deal,” White House spokesman Karolin Lewitt told reporters at a briefing on Thursday. He said that the lawyers of the White House and the Department of Justice believe that the expansion was at a strong legal rung.
Lewitt said on Tuesday, “President Trump does not want Tikok Dark,” and saying that the administration will spend in the next three months, ensuring that the sale stops and protect the data of American consumers.
Trump said on Tuesday that he would expand the “perhaps” deadline. “Perhaps the approval of China is to be taken, but I think we will receive it,” he told reporters in the Air Force. “I think President Xi will eventually approve it.”
A 2024 law required Tiktok to stop operating by 19 January until the Chinese parents of Tiktok Bidens The app demonstrated significant progress towards dividing or selling American property.
Trump started his second term as President on 20 January and opted not to implement the law. He first extended the deadline in early April, and then until 19 June last month.
In March, Trump said that he would be ready to reduce tariffs on China for a deal with bidens to sell the short-video app used by 170 million Americans.
A deal was operating in this spring, which would stop Tikok’s US operations to be closed by a new US-based firm, majority-owned, and American investors, but China indicated that it would not approve it after the announcements of the tariffs standing on Tram’s Chinese goods.
Some Democratic MPs argue that Trump has no legal right to expand the deadline and suggest that the under consideration will not meet legal requirements.
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