In his first few days back in office, President Trump is talking about TikTok entirely as a deal making exercise, dropping all of his previously expressed concerns about Chinese influence and American national security.

After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.

The founder of the app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year.

Anti-TikTok sentiment rapidly accelerated through all branches of government. A congressional bill demanding ByteDance sell its stake in their app to an American buyer or face expulsion from the country vote received a bipartisan vote, was signed by President Joe Biden and upheld by a 7-2 Supreme Court decision.

Columnist David Marcus writes that TikTok must be taken out of the Chinese Communist Party's hands if it is to turn the lights back on.

State media hailed RedNote's success among American "TikTok refugees" as a repudiation of U.S. government "demonizing" of China's development.

China's foreign ministry said on Monday companies should "decide independently" on matters of their operations and deals, responding to a question about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump proposing a 50% U.

The bizarre surge in popularity in the US for China-based social media app RedNote ahead of the looming TikTok ban has sparked alarm among policy experts – who warned it carries even greater ...

In trying out Chinese apps as a form of protest — language barrier be damned — many of TikTok’s 170 million American users discovered the same features that had made TikTok

TikTok users and young people in Germany are significantly less suspicious and have a more favourable view of Moscow and Beijing, according to the study, which flags it as a concern ahead of Germany's upcoming elections.

DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT.