
Donald Trump has declared victory in the battle over TikTok, claiming he has secured the app's future in the United States. The president signed an executive order approving a joint-venture deal intended to safeguard access for TikTok's 170 million American users.
Yet while Trump boasted that China's President Xi Jinping had given him the green light, Beijing has not offered confirmation, details or even a single comment. For a deal this politically sensitive, that silence raises more questions than answers.