{"id":29486,"date":"2020-11-25T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29486"},"modified":"2020-11-25T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:15:00","slug":"trump-administration-extends-tiktok-sale-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29486","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration extends TikTok sale deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for ByteDance to divest its popular video sharing app TikTok has been pushed back one week to Dec. 4, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline was set for Friday after a previous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfnhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnvdsss_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfnhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnvdsss_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606429578774000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHeKbtppimU2GHXF5isCFn8z_GbmA\">15-day extension<\/a>. It was delayed again as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews a \u201crevised submission\u201d it recently received, a Treasury spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bgzbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpdjzffj_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bgzbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpdjzffj_fgndjjhshwdnqnhbsgsg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606429578774000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHKnMlMZ9c1HYRmoFrVBnRuGNZQUw\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0signed an executive order in August calling for Beijing-owned ByteDance to sell the app to an American company or have the app banned in the U.S. Trump\u2019s order targeting TikTok alleged the company posed a threat to national security, which TikTok has denied.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok filed a petition asking the court to extend the deadline of the divestiture earlier this month, arguing it was necessary since the company had yet to hear a final decision about a proposed deal the president tentatively approved in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for ByteDance to divest&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29487,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29486\/revisions\/29487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}