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Trump, Xi make progress on TikTok deal, but more work remains, White House says

• President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a much-anticipated call aimed at finalizing a deal to keep TikTok from going dark in the U.S.
• ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, has faced an ultimatum under a federal law requiring it to either divest the platform’s American business or be shut down in the U.S.
• Trump has repeatedly extended the deadline.

• President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping failed to come to a final agreement on TikTok during a call Friday, but the two made significant progress toward a deal, a White House official told CNBC’s Eamon Javers.

  Trump and his administration had signaled earlier in the week that a deal was all but clinched.

   

  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that negotiators for the two countries had agreed on a “framework” for TikTok, which is under threat of being banned in the U.S.

  Trump on Tuesday had even stated, “We have a deal on TikTok,” adding that his call with Xi was merely “to confirm everything up.”

  ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, has faced an ultimatum under a federal law requiring it to either divest the platform’s American business or be shut down in the U.S.

  But Trump, a fan of TikTok who credited it with helping him win the 2024 presidential election, has repeatedly extended the deadline. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order delaying it until Dec. 16.

  During a state visit to the U.K. on Thursday, Trump said he was eager to keep TikTok alive in the U.S.

   

  “We’re speaking to President Xi on Friday to see if we can finalize something on Tiktok because there is tremendous value, and I hate to give away value, but I like Tiktok,” Trump said at Chequers, the British prime minister’s weekend residence in Aylesbury, England.

  Lawmakers of both parties had backed the TikTok legislation, which aimed to protect Americans from social media apps being used for surveillance or manipulation purposes by foreign adversaries.

  Former President Joe Biden signed the bill into law in April 2024, with ByteDance initially facing a Jan. 19 deadline to divest or face a U.S. ban.

  But Trump extended that deadline on his first day in office, and he has done so three more times since then.