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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he had agreed with Chinese President Xi Jinping to approve a deal over TikTok. "He approved the TikTok deal," Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office,
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a regional summit taking place at the end of October in South Korea and will visit China in the “early part of next
The call Friday, the first between the two leaders since June, also touched on the ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
Officials have been working on a deal to bring popular video app TikTok under U.S. ownership to avoid shutting it down in the United States.
The leaders of the world’s two biggest economies spoke for the first time since June and agreed to meet in six weeks.
The president wrote on Truth Social, “appreciate the TikTok approval,” after a call with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. But he also suggested the deal and other issues were still in progress.
Donald Trump claimed victory on a deal that would put TikTok in the hands of his allies after a call with Xi Jinping. But details on the agreement—and Beijing’s buy-in—remain murky.
President Trump said he "made progress" on the approval of a deal to resolve ownership of TikTok during a "very productive" conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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