China Has Reasons to Like TikTok’s Trump-Approved Shotgun Deal

A White Household-authorised strategy to rework TikTok into a U.S.-based company would maintain the operation of the viral limited-video clip app, and possible the algorithm that has powered its rise, in Chinese hands. This composition improves the deal’s prospects of acquiring favor in Beijing, which had threatened to veto a sale.

President Trump explained Saturday he had given his blessing to a offer that would see TikTok partner with Oracle Corp. and Walmart Inc. to form a new entity called TikTok World that would give services to TikTok’s present-day…