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China’s ByteDance Will Get 1 of 7 Board Seats for TikTok’s US Operations, Official Says

This week’s progress towards a deal marked a rare breakthrough in months-long talks between the world’s two biggest economies.
TikTok’s first time sponsoring the glitzy event comes just as the US effectively deemed the company a national security threat under its current ownership, raising complications for Condé Nast and the gala’s other organisers.
Trump said on Friday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had made progress on a TikTok agreement in a phone call and would meet face to face in six weeks. (Shutterstock)

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