Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump’s willingness to let TikTok go dark was a decisive factor in shaping a framework agreement with China.

At the same time, China’s ruling against Nvidia over a 2020 acquisition surfaced during the Madrid round of trade discussions, underscoring how technology and national security concerns continue to dominate economic diplomacy.

Both developments are now shaping expectations ahead of Trump’s scheduled call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday.

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Source: https://invezz.com/news/2025/09/16/trumps-tiktok-threat-and-nvidia-setback-shape-us-china-trade-talks/

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The move by users who call themselves “TikTok refugees” has made RedNote the most downloaded app on Apple’s US App Store on Monday.

RedNote is a TikTok competitor popular with young people in China, Taiwan and other Mandarin-speaking populations.

It has about 300 million monthly users and looks like a combination of TikTok and Instagram. It allows users, mostly young urban women, to exchange lifestyle tips from dating to fashion.

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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2475l7zpqyo

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“We ordered TikTok today to freeze and preserve all data and evidence linked to the Romanian elections, but also for upcoming elections in the EU,” said Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy in a statement. “This preservation order is a key step in helping investigators establish the facts and adds to our formal requests for information which seek information following the declassification of secret documents yesterday.”

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Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/12/05/EU-TikTok-ROmanian-election-data-European-Commission/6811733406468/

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The companies filed their lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, arguing that the law violates the U.S. Constitution on a number of grounds including running afoul of First Amendment free speech protections. The law, signed by Biden on April 24, gives ByteDance until Jan. 19 to sell TikTok or face a ban.

“For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent, nationwide ban,” the companies said in the lawsuit.

The White House and U.S. Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-bytedance-sue-block-us-160112179.html

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The bill passed the House 352 to 65 with one member voting present, showing wide bipartisan support with backing from House Speaker Mike Johnson and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It now heads to the Senate where its fate is more uncertain.

At issue is TikTok’s Chinese ownership. U.S. officials say parent company ByteDance could hand over the personal information of the 170 million Americans who use the popular short-video app to Beijing. The bill’s opponents have raised free speech concerns. They also say that TikTok has taken steps to safeguard the data of Americans by storing it on U.S. servers.

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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/13/is-tiktok-banned-what-to-know/72957680007/

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On Sunday, Biden’s campaign posted its first video, captioned “lol hey guys.” It shows the president answering Super Bowl questions before the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.

While the TikTok video post is meant to pick up young voters, it has also sparked plenty of controversy and pushback from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle over concerns about data privacy and national security concerns about the video app and its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance.

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Source: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/02/12/biden-campaign-joins-tiktok/9031707795701/

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok CEO Shou Chew, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Discord CEO Jason Citron testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a Wednesday hearing entitled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.”

The hearing focused on the prevalence on sexual exploitation on social media, what tech CEOs were doing to fight it and growing rage among parents over a lack of federal action.

Here are the highlights from the contentious hearing.

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Source: https://thehill.com/business/4437994-tech-ceos-senate-testify-child-safety-live-updates-zuckerberg-fb-tiktok/

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In the letter, bin Laden claimed that he orchestrated the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center that killed nearly 3,000 Americans because the US “attacked us in Palestine.”

Bin Laden called the creation of Israel a “crime which must be erased.” He also claimed that the AIDS epidemic was “a Satanic American Invention” and objected to US companies allowing women to have jobs, fuming, “You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins.”

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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/11/16/business/tiktok-shredded-as-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-gets-viral-praise-terrorist-propaganda/

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Yintao “Roger” Yu, the former head of engineering for ByteDance’s US operations, alleged he was fired from his gig after raising alarms about the company’s actions to his superiors.

He asserted that ByteDance leadership knew that a special committee within the Chinese government had a “backdoor channel” to access US user data – despite the company’s repeated denials that such a relationship existed, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by Bloomberg.

Yu also alleged that ByteDance has engaged in an effort to spread propaganda that backed the Chinese Communist Party’s views on TikTok, which has more than 150 million users in the US.

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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/tiktok-parent-allowed-chinese-communist-party-supreme-access-to-us-data-suit/

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