Donald Trump is once again president — and he's already signed a slew of executive orders. Federal employees have been ordered to return to the office full time. A "national energy emergency" has been declared.

In his first few days back in office, President Trump is talking about TikTok entirely as a deal making exercise, dropping all of his previously expressed concerns about Chinese influence and American national security.

United States President Donald Trump is seemingly using TikTok, a popular social media platform owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, as a bargaining chip for Sino-US economic and trade relations, experts and market insiders said on Tuesday.

Over the past five years, TikTok not only redefined digital marketing but also embedded itself into online culture as a platform for creativity, connection, and commerce. Its absence would leave a void with widespread implications for those who have come to rely on its unique ecosystem.

An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.

In a special episode of Left, Right and Centre broadcast live from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, American journalist Ben Smith discussed a wide range of issues, from US President Donald Trump's move to 'save' TikTok in the US to the war in Ukraine and Gaza.

Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty and other investors have submitted a bid to buy TikTok from China-based ByteDance after a court-ordered divestiture or shutdown.

A board member at TikTok’s parent company said that a deal to save the app from disappearing in the United States will be done soon.

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