{"id":167798,"date":"2025-09-19T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167798\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:51:10","slug":"trump-and-xi-are-set-to-discuss-the-tiktok-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167798\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Xi are set to discuss the TikTok deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> is talking with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday in a push to finalize a deal to allow the popular social media app TikTok to keep operating<\/a> in the United States.<\/p>\n

The call between the two leaders began around 8 a.m. Washington time, according to a White House official and China\u2019s Xinhua News Agency.<\/p>\n

The call may offer clues about whether the two leaders might meet in person to hash out a final agreement to end their trade war<\/a> and provide clarity on where relations between the world\u2019s two superpowers<\/a> may be headed.<\/p>\n

This is the second call with Xi since Trump returned to the White House and launched sky-high tariffs on China<\/a>, triggering back-and-forth trade restrictions that strained ties<\/a> between the two largest economies. But Trump, a Republican, has expressed willingness to negotiate trade deals with Beijing, notably for TikTok, which faces a U.S. ban<\/a> unless its Chinese parent company sells its controlling stake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another call for Trump and Xi over trade tensions<\/p>\n

The two men also spoke in June<\/a> to defuse tensions over China\u2019s restrictions on the export of rare earth elements<\/a>, used in everything from smartphones to fighter jets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m speaking with President Xi, as you know, on Friday, having to do with TikTok and also trade,\u201d Trump said Thursday. \u201cAnd we\u2019re very close to deals on all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said his relationship with China is \u201cvery good\u201d but noted that Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine<\/a> could end if European countries put higher tariffs on China. Trump didn\u2019t say if he planned to raise tariffs on Beijing over its purchase of Moscow\u2019s oil<\/a>, as he has done with India.<\/p>\n

The Chinese Embassy in Washington on Thursday didn\u2019t confirm any upcoming summit between the leaders, but spokesperson Liu Pengyu said \u201cheads-of-state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable role in providing strategic guidance for China-U.S. relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sun Yun, director of the China program at the Washington-based think tank Stimson Center, predicted a positive discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth sides have strong desire for the leadership summit to happen, while the details lie in the trade deal and what can be achieved for both sides from the summit,\u201d Sun said.<\/p>\n

Efforts to finalize the TikTok deal<\/p>\n

Following a U.S.-China trade meeting earlier this week in Madrid, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the sides reached a framework deal<\/a> on TikTok\u2019s ownership but Trump and Xi likely would finalize it Friday.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has credited the app with helping him win another term, several times has extended a deadline<\/a> for the app to be spun off from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. It is a requirement to allow TikTok to keep operating in the U.S. under a law passed last year seeking to address data privacy and national security concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump said TikTok \u201chas tremendous value\u201d and the U.S. \u201chas that value in its hand because we\u2019re the ones that have to approve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. officials have been concerned about ByteDance\u2019s roots and ownership, pointing to laws in China that require Chinese companies to hand over data requested by the government. Another concern is the proprietary algorithm that populates what users see on TikTok.<\/p>\n

Chinese officials said Monday that a consensus was reached<\/a> on authorization of the \u201cuse of intellectual property rights,\u201d including the algorithm, and that the two sides agreed on entrusting a partner with handling U.S. user data and content security.<\/p>\n

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, says TikTok\u2019s data and algorithm must be \u201ctruly in American hands\u201d to comply with the law.<\/p>\n

More trade issues on the table<\/p>\n

Top U.S. and Chinese officials have held four rounds of trade talks<\/a> between May and September, with another likely in the coming weeks. Both sides have paused sky-high tariffs<\/a> and pulled back from harsh export controls, but many issues remain unresolved.<\/p>\n

Trump in the call would likely \u201cseek to make it appear that the United States has the upper hand in trade negotiations,\u201d said Ali Wyne, senior research and advocacy adviser on U.S.-China issues at the International Crisis Group.<\/p>\n

Xi would likely \u201cseek to underscore China\u2019s economic leverage and warn that continued progress in bilateral relations will hinge on an easing of U.S. tariffs, sanctions and export controls,\u201d Wyne said.<\/p>\n

No deals have been announced on tech export restrictions, Chinese purchases of U.S. agricultural products or fentanyl. The Trump administration has imposed additional 20% tariffs on Chinese goods linked to allegations that Beijing has failed to stem the flow to the U.S. of the chemicals used to make opioids.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s second-term trade war with Beijing has cost U.S. farmers one of their top markets<\/a>. From January through July, American farm exports to China fell 53% compared with the same period last year. The damage was even greater in some commodities: U.S. sorghum sales to China, for instance, were down 97%.<\/p>\n

Josh Gackle, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said he would be following the outcome of Friday\u2019s call because China, the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. beans, has paused purchases for this year\u2019s new crop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still time. It\u2019s encouraging that the two countries continue to talk,\u201d Gackle said. \u201cI think there\u2019s frustration growing at the farmer level that they haven\u2019t been able to reach a deal yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Associated Press writers Josh Boak and Paul Wiseman contributed to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump is talking with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[54128,23,1927,1204,550,28,98722,144,3327,3505,12,793,3139,101013,3,111,101012,4666,8879,74,21,792,19,22,20,25,24,800,6132],"class_list":["post-167798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-ali-wyne","tag-america","tag-ap-top-news","tag-asia-pacific","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-bytedance-ltd","tag-china","tag-china-government","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-general-news","tag-international-trade","tag-josh-gackle","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-raja-krishnamoorthi","tag-scott-bessent","tag-tariffs-and-global-trade","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-news","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}