For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,

Refusing to sell TikTok to the Americans could help Beijing assert its stance in what it sees as US bullying. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Capitol Hill Republicans who pushed aggressively to ban TikTok have gone almost totally silent on President Donald Trump’s unilateral decision not to enforce the ban. Asked directly by POLITICO about Trump’s executive order to grant TikTok a reprieve in defiance of the law passed by Congress,

President Donald Trump downplayed the national security risk posed by TikTok in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, days after offering the social video app a reprieve from legislation that would have forced it to shut down.

US President Donald Trump has downplayed the threat of the social media app TikTok being used by the Chinese government to spy on users He says the app will "stay around" and that other products made in China could just as easily be used for spying Also on Wednesday,

On his first day in office, President Trump added several unexpected wrinkles to the ongoing “ban or sale” saga facing China-owned TikTok, drawing Chinese government criticism.

Donald Trump has defended delaying the ban on TikTok, saying it does not matter if China spies on “young kids watching crazy videos”.

During his first interview as the US President during his second term, Trump defended TikTok and said phones, computers made in China were a far bigger threat