On December 22, 2024, local time, U.S. President-elect Trump said in a speech in Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, that he was in favor of TikTok continuing to operate in the United States for a period of time. The following is a relevant introduction:

Background

On April 24 this year, U.S. President Biden signed a bill passed by Congress, requiring TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company within 270 days, otherwise the application will be banned in the United States. On December 16, TikTok asked the U.S. Federal Supreme Court to temporarily freeze the U.S. government’s forced sale order against the platform. Its lawyers said that the decree not only violated its constitutional rights, but also violated the rights of 170 million American users. If it is not frozen, within a month, small businesses on TikTok will lose more than $1 billion in revenue, and creators will lose nearly $300 million. On December 18, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would discuss the bill to ban TikTok from operating in the United States again, and it is scheduled to debate the case on January 10.

Reasons for Trump’s change of attitude

Trump said that during his presidential campaign, he was on TikTok The videos posted on TikTok have received billions of views and received good feedback, and he believes that TikTok has played a role in winning the support of young people, and he won the support of young people by a 34 percentage point advantage.

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CNN believes that Trump’s remarks indicate that he may give TikTok a break. However, Forbes magazine in the United States noted that as of now, Trump has not made any specific commitments to suspend the ban, nor has he proposed how he will oppose the ban. Some analysts pointed out that Trump may be using TikTok as a bargaining chip to bargain with China and force China to make concessions on economic and trade issues.