How Trump's Team Got The TikTok Deal Done
Arts And Entertainment,Social Media,TikTok,Trump Agenda,Foreign Affairs,China,Foreign Policy,National Security,Culture,Technology,ByteDance
Shortly after President Donald Trump's second term began, Vice President JD Vance was given a job: figure out how to fulfill the president's promise to save TikTok.
That deal was reached late last week, but work started a year ago when the vice president convened a series of "late night meetings" to dissect the unique challenges of convincing ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the social media network, to sell to an American company. Congress passed a law during the Biden administration to ban TikTok unless it was sold to an American company, but Trump delayed enforcement as his team worked towards a deal to avert it...
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