Washington (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said he found a buyer for the Tiktok application whom he described as a group of “very rich people”, adding that he would reveal the identity in about two weeks.

Donald Trump, who made these statements in an interview on Fox News broadcast on Sunday, said the agreement he is developing would probably require China approval and predicted that Chinese President Xi Jinping would likely give his fire.

In mid-June, the American president postponed the deadline imposed on the Chinese company byted on September 17 to sell the activities of its Tiktok application in the United States under penalty of ban in the country, under a law promulgated under the chairmanship of Joe Biden.

An agreement was being developed in the spring, which would have transformed the American activities of Tiktok into a new company based in the United States, owned and managed mainly by American investors, but it was suspended after Beijing indicated that it would not approve it following the announcement by Donald Trump high customs duties on Chinese products.

“We have (…) a buyer for Tiktok,” the American president told Fox News. “I think I will probably need the approval of China. I think that President XI (will approve) probably.”

Under an American law of 2024, Tiktok had to stop its activities on January 19 unless Bytedance completed the sale of the American assets of the application or has made significant progress for a sale.

Donald Trump, who attributes to the application the merit of having strengthened his supports among young voters during the presidential election last November, pushed the deadline three times.

(Report Steve Holland and Katharine Jackson, Benjamin Mallet)

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