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President Donald Trump’s administration said Wednesday that it was still working to resolve its security concerns about the Chinese-owned app TikTok after the firm sought to delay a deadline to sell its US operations.
Chinese company ByteDance has until Thursday to restructure ownership of the app in the United States to meet national security concerns, but this week it filed a petition in a Washington court asking for a delay.
The company said in a statement Tuesday that it had asked the government for a 30-day extension due to “continuing new requests and unclear whether our proposed solutions would be accepted,” but was not granted.
On Wednesday, the US Treasury Department said in a statement that it “remains focused on reaching a resolution of the national security risks arising from the ByteDance acquisition of Musical.ly.”
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ByteDance had established TikTok in the United States three years ago by buying Musical.ly, a lip-syncing video app that was already present in the country, and merging the two platforms.
The Treasury Department disputed the signature’s allegations of lack of clarity from the government, saying that “we have been clear with ByteDance regarding the necessary steps” to reach a resolution.
The Trump administration has been seeking to ban the app in the US, citing the risk that it will deliver US user data to Beijing.
The company strongly denies the allegations.
Trump signed a series of orders against the video platform this summer.
One required ByteDance to sell its US TikTok operations within 90 days, citing national security concerns.
The company also faced an order that would effectively ban the application in the country by the same date.
But on October 30, a Pennsylvania judge issued a court order temporarily blocking the order designed to ban it.
The order would have taken the Chinese-owned video-sharing app offline by cutting it off from American companies that provide website hosting, data storage and other basic items needed to operate.
The Trump administration appealed the ruling.
ByteDance and TikTok have proposed creating a new company with IT company Oracle as a technology partner and retail giant Walmart as a business partner.
The plan seemed to convince the administration, but the platform is still waiting for the green light.
TikTok has 100 million users in the United States.
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