TikTok Reportedly Building New U.S. Version Of App Ahead Of Sale
Tiktok would create a new version of its application specifically for the United States. The application of the video sharing platform for American users has a planned launch in American application stores on September 5, information reported.
This development comes shortly after President Donald Trump said the United States “approximately” had an agreement for an American company to acquire Tiktok American assets. The president told Maria Bartiromo de Fox News that the agreement was “good for China, and that’s good for us”. He added that it was optimistic about the agreement, even if it will require the approval of China.
“I think I will probably need the approval of China. I think that President Xi will probably do it,” he said.
In April, a prior agreement that the Trump administration had to finalize the sale of Tiktok, apparently in response to the prices of the president’s “liberation day”.
Last month, the president extended the deadline for the parent company in China of Tiktok, Bytedance, to yield its American assets until September 17. It was the third time that the president extended the deadline, according to Fox News. (Related: Trump announces what he will do if no tiktok agreement is concluded next month)
Tiktok was required to find an American buyer after the protection of the Americans against foreign controlled applications was adopted by the Congress and signed by former President Joe Biden in April 2024. When the deadline of nine initial months returned, Tiktok temporarily ceased to operate in the United States on January 19. He signed another extension in April and another in June.
To which Tiktok screens watched when it was temporarily prohibited in the United States on January 19, 2025. (Photo illustration of Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images)
The bill obliging Tiktok to separate from Bydance was presented by the Chamber’s selective committee on strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The members of the Bipartisan Committee said in a press release that the CPC had no company to manage a major technological platform with access to personal data from American citizens.
The classification member of the Committee, the Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, said that Tiktok posed a national security threat “as long as it belongs to Bytedance and therefore forced to collaborate with the PCC.” He added that legislation would protect Americans from “digital surveillance and influence the diet operations that could arm their personal data against them”.
Then, the chairman of the committee, former republican representative Mike Gallagher from Wisconsin, told Tiktok to “break with the Chinese Communist Party” or to lose access to American social media users.
“America’s first opponent has no business to control a dominant media platform in the United States,” he said.
