Trump won’t extend deadline for TikTok to arrange US sale


"We’ll either close up TikTok in this country for security reasons, or it will be sold,” US president Donald Trump told reporters on Sept 10. — Bloomberg

US President Donald Trump said he won’t extend his Sept 15 deadline for ByteDance Ltd to sell the US operations of its popular TikTok video-sharing app.

"We’ll either close up TikTok in this country for security reasons, or it will be sold,” Trump told reporters Sept 10 before boarding the presidential aircraft for a campaign trip to Michigan. "There will be no extension of the TikTok deadline.”

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