{"id":29783,"date":"2020-12-07T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29783"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:57:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:57:43","slug":"all-quiet-on-the-tiktok-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=29783","title":{"rendered":"ALL QUIET ON THE TIKTOK FRONT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest deadline for ByteDance to sell the widely popular video-sharing app TikTok passed on Friday without a final deal being reached or the Trump administration again extending the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline had already been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vyrmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfrhjyhg_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vyrmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfrhjyhg_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607468025218000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH2ksHMearrv5dhSQ4Rv1rra1tBRw\">delayed twice last month<\/a>, and uneventfully passed again last week without a clear path forward for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmfmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvnchfch_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmfmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvnchfch_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607468025218000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEJWvNmZD2U8yITYx5xPF-JIgJz2A\">President Trump<\/a>\u2019s executive order from August calling for the Beijing-owned ByteDance to sell the app or have it banned in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>A Treasury Department spokesperson said in a statement late Friday that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) \u201cis engaging with ByteDance to complete the divestment and other steps necessary to resolve the national security risks arising from the transaction, consistent with the President\u2019s August 14 Order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with the matter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lqqqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzjwhjq_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lqqqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmzjwhjq_drrtcchphftmgdhsgjtt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1607468025218000&amp;usg=AFQjCNElYO8s-nCyBS9o3JodEthFY3Yp2w\">told CNN<\/a>\u00a0the government will not enforce the order requiring the sale but will not further extend the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Trump tentatively approved a deal in September that would establish a U.S.-headquartered TikTok Global with partial U.S.-based owners, Oracle and Walmart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest deadline for ByteDance to&#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-29783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783","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=29783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29784,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783\/revisions\/29784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}