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China Will Decide TikTok’s Fate in America
Despite the last-minute drama in the US, Beijing will have the last word.
What will it take to let TikTok go?
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The White House’s TikTok deal has devolved into quite a spectacle.
Ahead of the deadline Saturday for the app to divest from its Chinese parent company or face a US ban, we still don’t have an answer on how it might do this. A flurry of last-minute interest has emerged, with players from Amazon.com Inc. to Andreessen Horowitz and Blackstone Inc. reportedly tossing their hats in the increasingly crowded ring of potential buyers.