As Tiktok approaches another possible ban on the US, the Chinese government refuses to let its algorithm be sold.
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As Trump’s administration approaches the end of the third legal legal expansion of the Tiktok or Tiktok-Ban law, the Chinese Communist Party makes one thing very clear: the applications for you, developed by the Chinese parent company of the application, byTedance, will not be sold.
This is because last time ByTedance tried to sell the algorithm – under the threat of Tiktok’s ban during President Trump’s first term – the Chinese government changed the last minute export rules to prevent the company from making the sale.
Today, CCP repeated its attitude to a Tiktok sale in syntactic At the state exit of the media China Daily. The Constitution began with the applauding White House Trump to create an official Tiktok account – and for inconsistency between the White House actions and the ban on Tiktok by Congress for national security reasons last year. “Tiktok’s appeal and effectiveness as a communication channel was not lost even in the White House,” he opened. “That the White House started its own account in the application less than a month before the third extensive deadline expires, it only serves to expose the hypocrisy of the supposed” security “of the US side against Tiktok.”
The Constitution then continued to remind readers that byTedance, as a Chinese company, “must comply with Chinese laws and regulations” and that the Chinese law “prohibits the export of basic technologies such as short algorithms, drawing a red line for the TIKTok transaction”. The Constitution has expressed hope that Trump will expand indefinitely the non -imposition of binding US law that requires Tiktok to be sold to a non -Chinese company or to be banned in the US
The attitude of the Chinese government does not necessarily mean that Trump and Bytetance will abandon efforts to make an agreement. But this means that the sale of the algorithm for you – which is essential to Tiktok’s operation and appeal – will not be on the table.
Tiktok is planning this possibility. In May, Reuters referenced That the company worked to create a clone for you only for you could be used in a possible separation of Tiktok from the existing application. (It is not clear whether the Chinese government will deal with Tiktok starting a single US algorithm, whether this algorithm is based in whole or in part on the Chinese asset whose sale of CCP has been banned.) In July, information, information referenced That the company worked in a separate US Tiktok application, which will begin in early September, before the forthcoming September 17th deadline of Trump.
If Tiktok proceeds by starting an application only for the US, it should be powered by an algorithm of some kind. The Chinese government suggests that the algorithm cannot be the trademark of ByTedance for you. The condition of an algorithm of clone is still in the air, both technologically and legally. Thus, Tiktok can be-at least in the short term in average.
In the meantime, Trump can do what it has done before and give another expansion, allowing the company to continue operating in the US in violation of US binding law. But Trump’s Commerce Minister Howard Lutnick has sung a different melody, saying That Tiktok will darken in September unless the Chinese government approves a sale.
The Trump and the Chinese government could also agree on a non -sale sale: an agreement that allows Tiktok’s operating Chinese control to continue, but gives Trump the cosmetic victory to close a deal of some kind. Such an agreement would probably violate the law that passed by Congress last year – but the burden would fall into Congress and the courts to demand compliance.
As the third expansion moves towards the end, one of the two things seems certain: Either Trump will continue to violate the law and allow Tiktok to remain under Chinese control, or Tiktok will change – somewhat dramatically – because the technology it has set will be away.
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