A TikTok deal China will love

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A TikTok deal China will love

After years of legal wrangling, geopolitical tension and four deadline extensions, TikTok is finally being transferred to US ownership. Yet beneath the fanfare, China still holds the upper hand – keeping control of the algorithms that made TikTok a global cultural force

US President Donald Trump shows an executive order about TikTok&nbsp

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Author: Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law, University of Southern California

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After four extensions of the statutory deadline to ban TikTok or force its Chinese owners to divest, US President Donald Trump has now signed an executive order transferring the app to US ownership. The announcement follows years of diplomatic sparring, bureaucratic manoeuvring, repeated efforts by federal and state governments to curtail the