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China hit brakes on TikTok deal after Trump's tariffs

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A deal to spin off the US assets of TikTok was put on hold after China indicated it would not approve the deal following President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement this week, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Trump on Friday extended by 75 days a deadline for ByteDance to sell US assets of the popular short video app to a non-Chinese buyer, or face a ban that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law. The deal, the structure of which was largely finalised by Wednesday, according to one of the sources, would have…

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