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Trump issues order for ByteDance to sell US TikTok business

US president Donald Trump ordered TikTok’s Chinese language father or mother ByteDance to promote its US belongings inside 90 days, citing nationwide safety considerations, amid tensions between Washington and Beijing. The manager order got here after the Committee on International Funding in the US (CFIUS), a US authorities physique that critiques offers for potential nationwide safety dangers, opened a brand new investigation of ByteDance’s acquisition of American lip-sync app Musical.ly in 2017. “There’s credible proof that leads me to imagine that ByteDance Ltd… by way of buying all pursuits in Musical.ly…may take motion that threatens to impair the nationwide safety of the US,” Mr Trump stated within the executive order on Friday. Backing the order, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stated in an August 14 statement that “CFIUS performed an exhaustive evaluate of the case and unanimously really useful this motion to the President in an effort to shield US customers from exploit