TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a Chinese short-form video hosting service owned by ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes.
The call on Friday, the first between the two leaders since June, was also set to focus on the ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
A successful TikTok deal would end China’s leverage over the social media app in the U.S. — and Trump’s too.
President plans to begin discussions with China as soon as Monday
Donald Trump extends the highly politicised auction by another 75 days
Congress first passed a measure to force the sale of TikTok's U.S. business last year
Trump is expected to be briefed Wednesday on a framework to keep the video-sharing app operational
Oracle? MrBeast? Elon Musk? Kevin O'Leary? Steven Mnuchin? Perplexity AI? Microsoft? Amazon? The U.S. government?
The president-elect unveiled plans for a Day One executive order to save TikTok from a ban, which is immediately raising a host of legal questions.
TikTok has been banned — for now. The popular app went dark for 170 million US users on Saturday, sparking outrage online.
The app posted a notice to users trying to use it around 10:45 p.m. ET