Washington, September 22, 2025: U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order later this week affirming that a deal to divest TikTok’s U.S. operations from Chinese parent company ByteDance complies with requirements under a 2024 law, a White House official said Monday.
The official told reporters on a conference call that Washington is confident Beijing has approved the arrangement and that no further negotiations with China are planned, though additional paperwork from both sides is still needed to finalize the agreement.
Trump has been under pressure to prevent a nationwide ban on the short-video platform, which has about 170 million U.S. users. Congress passed a law in 2024 mandating TikTok’s shutdown by January 2025 unless its U.S. assets were sold to American ownership.
The president delayed enforcement of that law until mid-December to allow time to extract TikTok’s U.S. assets, secure American investors, and structure a deal that meets the full divestiture standards laid out in the legislation.
Last week’s breakthrough on TikTok marked a rare sign of progress in months-long negotiations between Washington and Beijing aimed at easing tensions in an ongoing trade dispute that has unsettled global markets.
