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Trump postpones the ban on TikTok in the U.S. for three months after the agreement with China
Washington.- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, postponed this Tuesday for three months the law that would ban TikTok in US territory, after the agreement reached with China in the negotiations held in Madrid.
The Republican president signed a decree extending the legal deadline for the Chinese company ByteDance to sell the ownership of TikTok in the United States until December 16, or else the video application will be banned in the country.
This is the fourth time Trump has postponed the ban on TikTok, after having done so in January, April and June of this year.
The measure comes after the agreement reached on Monday in Madrid between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng.
According to Washington, the agreement will allow TikTok’s US subsidiary, with some 150 million active users out of the 1.5 billion that the popular short video platform has worldwide, to be US-owned, although the Chinese delegation did not go into details about it.
The law, approved by Congress last year, requires ByteDance to completely divest itself from TikTok to prevent the Chinese government from accessing the data of US users, something that China vehemently denies.
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to hold a phone conversation on Friday to discuss the agreement.
During his first term, Trump was openly critical of TikTok for national security reasons, but currently views the platform more favorably, considering that it allowed him to connect with young people during the election campaign.
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