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TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to judge an invitation from President-elect Donald Trump to be his inauguration.
Chew volition beryllium seated beforehand and halfway connected the dais with different VIP guests and chap tech executives Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, according to a study from The New York Times.
The inauguration connected January 20 volition travel 1 time aft TikTok plans to unopen down operations wrong the U.S.
Trump is present considering an enforcement bid to suspend enforcement of the instrumentality requiring TikTok to divest from Chinese-owned ByteDance oregon look a prohibition successful the U.S. for 60 to 90 days, according to the Washington Post, to bargain clip to negociate a merchantability oregon immoderate different solution.
Trump’s defence of TikTok marks a reversal from his presumption successful 2020, erstwhile helium tried to artifact the video-sharing app successful the U.S. and unit its merchantability to a U.S. company.
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"I person a lukewarm spot successful my bosom for TikTok," Trump said past month. The incoming president has much than 14 cardinal followers connected the app. He met with the company's executives successful Mar-a-Lago past month.
In wide, bipartisan fashion, Congress passed a instrumentality past twelvemonth implementing the ban-or-sale policy, arguing the CCP uses the app to spy connected Americans and dispersed propaganda, and ByteDance has agelong said TikTok is not for sale.
Reports person emerged of U.S. billionaires similar Elon Musk and Kevin O'Leary lining up to enactment successful offers connected TikTok's U.S. operations.
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Last week, the Supreme Court considered a situation to the law that volition instrumentality effect connected January 19. It has not yet issued a determination but is expected to let the instrumentality to spell forward. If the tribunal upholds the instrumentality — arsenic a little tribunal did past period — TikTok's days successful the U.S. would beryllium numbered.
Trump could besides push Congress to repeal the law, oregon nonstop his Department of Justice not to enforce it. His lawyer wide nominee Pam Bondi declined to accidental whether she would enforce the prohibition during a confirmation proceeding this week.
Trump took U.S. overseas argumentation watchers by astonishment past period erstwhile helium invited President Xi Jinping to his inauguration, though Xi is not expected to be the inauguration.
Despite chronic hacking by the Chinese, Trump seems to beryllium coming successful with a diplomatic code toward Xi and his government, keeping them connected their toes astir Trump’s longtime committedness to institute tariffs arsenic precocious arsenic 60% connected their exports to the U.S.
"We person a bully narration with China. I person a bully relationship," Trump told CNBC past month. "We've been talking and discussing with President Xi immoderate things."
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