The president of the United States, Donald Trumphe has returned to extend the deadline so that the Chinese parent company of TiktokBytedance, gets rid of the American operations of the platform and thus avoid the closure of the social network in the country. On this occasion, the president has extended the deadline for another 90 days, until the Next December 16. Trump has signed an executive order for which delays the prohibition of the US application to be able to finish the operation after Framework Agreement reached This Monday in Madrid between Washington and Beijing, and about which the Republican and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping will talk about Friday. In this regard, the US president has advanced that «The Department of Justice will not take any measure to enforce the law of protection of Americans of Applications Controlled by foreign adversaries (Public Law 118-50, Div. H) or impose sanctions against any entity by any breach of the law, including distribution, maintenance or update (or allow the distribution, maintenance or update of) any application controlled by foreign adversaries as defined in the law. «And it is that, as explained by the US commercial representative Greer, at the end of the meeting with China at the Santa Cruz Palace, headquarters of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will not allow «repetitive extensions. We have an agreement. If an extension is needed only to sign, etc., it is one thingbut there are no continuous extensions. «It should be noted that Trump announced through his social social network that» the Great commercial meeting in Europe between the United States and China It has been wonderful. It will conclude soon. Also An agreement was reached on a company that the young people in our country wanted to save. They will be delighted! I will talk to President XI on Friday. The relationship is still very solid! » No more details have been revealed about the agreementalthough, as the US Treasury secretary, Scott Besent has pointed out, is similar to the commercial terms that had negotiated earlier the year.
«This agreement would not be completed without due guarantees for the national security of the United States»Besent said in an interview with ‘CNBC’. «It seems that we could also satisfy Chinese interests.» Trump’s executive order is the Fourth extension that issues since in January a National Security Law which forces Bytedance to sell the American business of Tiktok. Since then, the President has ordered the Department of Justice not to apply the law or penalize other companies that support the popular platform.
