Trump signed executive order on TikTok deal. But the deal isnโt complete
ํธ๋ผํ, ํฑํก ๋งค๊ฐ ํ์ ๋ช
๋ น ์๋ช
โฆ ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ํ์์ ์์ง ์๋ฃ๋์ง ์์๋ค
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday clearing the way for the completion of a deal to sell TikTokโs US assets to a consortium of mostly American investors.
The order marks an important procedural step toward finalizing the TikTok sale, but the deal is not yet complete. Although both US and Chinese officials have signaled they are aligned on the dealโs framework, it will still likely require regulatory approvals from both countries. The full list of investors participating in the deal has not yet been released.
However, during the signing event, Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping had green-lit the deal and expressed confidence that it would be completed.
โI had a very good talk with President Xi,โ Trump said, referring to a Friday phone call between the two leaders. โAnd we talked about TikTok and other things, but we talked about TikTok and he gave us the go-aheadโ for the deal.
Beijing has not publicly confirmed Xiโs approval, nor has it provided any update on the status of the deal since the latest round of trade talks with the US in Madrid last week, when Chinese officials said they had reached a โbasic framework consensusโ over TikTok.
Thursdayโs executive order states that the deal constitutes a qualified divestiture as required by the ban-or-sale law that passed with strong bipartisan consensus last year. The US law, which went into effect in January, bans the app unless parent company ByteDance divests approximately 80% of its US assets to non-Chinese investors. Trump has repeatedly delayed enforcement of the law.
โI have determined that the proposed divestiture would allow the millions of Americans who enjoy TikTok every day to continue using it while also protecting national security,โ the order states. It adds that the deal to transfer control of TikTokโs US assets will also apply to ByteDanceโs other popular platforms, Lemon8 and CapCut.
The president is also expected to extend the pause on enforcing the law by another 120 days so that paperwork and regulatory approvals for the deal can be completed, a senior White House official said Monday. Trump recently extended the pause until December 16 โ meaning that if the deal is completed, TikTokโs assets likely wonโt be formally transferred until next year.
ByteDance is also expected to sign an agreement laying out the framework of the deal with one or more of the new investors this week.
The deal will hand control of TikTokโs US operations, along with a copy of the algorithm, to the new US-based joint venture, according to the White House. That ownership group will have majority American investors โ including Oracle and potentially private equity firm Silver Lake, Dell CEO Michael Dell and Lachlan Murdochโs Fox Corp. โ and be run by a majority American board of directors. ByteDance is expected to retain a stake no greater than 20%.
Oracle will oversee the appโs algorithm, as well as data and privacy issues, according to the White House.
Beijing has insisted that the deal must comply with Chinese laws and regulations, which have placed TikTokโs algorithm under export controls. Chinese officials and government advisors have suggested that instead of selling the algorithm, ByteDance could license the technology to the new US joint venture after obtaining an export approval from the Chinese government.
The new US-based joint venture will be valued around $14 billion, Vice President JD Vance said during Thursdayโs executive order signing. The value of TikTokโs US assets had previously been pegged at anywhere between $20 billion and $100 billion, depending on whether the agreement included access to the appโs algorithm.
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The expected deal lays the groundwork for the first in-person meeting between Trump and Xi since Trump returned to office. The leaders discussed the TikTok deal in a call on Friday and are expected to meet next month at the APEC Summit in South Korea.
- executive order: ํ์ ๋ช
๋ น
- clear the way: ๊ธธ์ ์ด๋ค, ์ค๋น๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๋ค
The new policy cleared the way for more foreign investment. ์๋ก์ด ์ ์ฑ
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- regulatory approvals: ๊ท์ ์น์ธ, ๊ฐ๋
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- green-light: ์น์ธํ๋ค, ํ๊ฐํ๋ค
- divestiture: ์์ฐ ๋งค๊ฐ, ๋ถ๋ฆฌ
The company announced the divestiture of its non-core business. ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ๋นํต์ฌ ์ฌ์
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- bipartisan consensus: ์ด๋น์ ํฉ์
- divest: ์์ฐ์ ๋งค๊ฐํ๋ค, ์ฒ๋ถํ๋ค
- go-ahead: ์งํ ํ๊ฐ, ์น์ธ
We got the go-ahead to launch the campaign. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์บ ํ์ธ์ ์์ํ๋ผ๋ ํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์๋ค.
- retain a stake: ์ง๋ถ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๋ค
- peg (at): ~๋ก ์ถ์ ํ๋ค, ํ๊ฐํ๋ค
Analysts pegged the companyโs value at $5 billion. ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ค์ ํ์ฌ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ 50์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ์ถ์ ํ๋ค.
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