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Trump Says US TikTok Buyer Lined Up, but Beijing Wants to Retain Algorithm

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‘We have a deal on TikTok,’ Trump said on Tuesday.

Trump Says US TikTok Buyer Lined Up, but Beijing Wants to Retain Algorithm

A woman poses with her smartphone displaying the @realdonaldtrump TikTok page, in Washington on Jan.19, 2025. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Catherine Yang

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President Donald Trump said on Sept. 16 that the United States has a buyer for TikTok and that a deal will preserve tens of billions of dollars in value for both China and the United States.

“We have a deal on TikTok. … We have a group of very big companies that want to buy it,” Trump said at a press conference, without providing further details.

Catherine Yang

Catherine Yang is a reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York.

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