Trump claims TikTok deal still on table
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The standstill highlights how the video app is mired in a geopolitical tussle between the United States and China over trade and tech supremacy.
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President Trump is about 50 minutes into his speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner in Washington DC.
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China has said it will "fight to the end" rather than capitulate to what it sees as US coercion, and will hike its own tariffs on American goods from 34% to 84% in response to the White House's lates...
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China reportedly backed out of a deal to sell TikTok to U.S. investors a day after President Donald Trump announced wide-ranging global tariffs.
TikTok on Friday was hours from a deadline to find a non-Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States. In the hours before that deadline, TikTok temporarily shut down in the United States and disappeared from app stores,
Oil prices slipped on Wednesday, hitting fresh four-year lows before recovering some ground, after China announced additional tariffs on U.S. goods in retaliation against President Donald Trump's tariff policy.