It is a soap opera that is not likely to end. As Fortune reports, Donald Trump said Tiktok would be “protected” and that it would extend the deadline to prevent the application of short videos from being banished from the United States.
In fact, last year, the Biden administration signed a law threatening Tiktok for the ban In the United States. Specifically, Bytedance, the matrix company of the application, had until January Sell American activities under penalty of being prohibited in the country.
“Simply delay” the deadline
Donald Trump decided, twice, to postpone the entry into force of 75 days. Technically, the Chinese platform has until June 19 to comply with the law.
And the president of the United States does not seem to have the intention of enforcing this law. He said that if no agreement was concluded to sell American Tiktok operations before the new deadline, he would grant another extension to the company.
It is not surprising since Donald Trump had already said last April wanting “simply delaying” Tiktok agreement with China “until this case works”, adding that everything depended on China.
Donald Trump’s ads about customs tasks have reached any agreement to buy Tiktok, despite the many investor proposals on the table. Washington decided last April At 145% raise the surcharge addressed to Beijing.
However, Donald Trump does not have the power to cancel the law that threatens the social network, only to suspend it. For this, I should obtain the Convention of Congress, which had voted with great bipartisan support from Tiktok in April 2024.
Source: BFM TV
