President Donald Trump’s suggestion of the United States entering into a 50-50 ownership joint venture with TikTok’s parent company to help it avoid a US ban would be “counter-intuitive”, one social media expert has said.
Among an array of executive orders signed by the president after he took office on Monday, Mr Trump signed one giving TikTok’s China-based parent firm ByteDance more time to find a buyer for TikTok’s US business to help it avoid a ban because of national security concerns around the company’s links to China.
