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Music Come explore these connections on the shortwave podcast from NPR. You may have noticed that TikTok returned to the app store.

This comes after President Donald Trump's side an executive order extending the deadline

for a sale to April. But the clock is ticking. The platform must sell its U.S. assets or face a ban

state side. President Trump has reportedly asked Vice President J.D. Vans to find a buyer, though it isn't

clear who would buy it, or whether China or bite dance, TikTok's mainland

Chinese parent company, would even allow a sale to go through. What does the future hold for TikTok?

And why are U.S. security officials so worried about the Chinese Communist Party using TikTok

to control conversations around the world? Dina Temple Rastin is the host and managing editor of the Click Here podcast from Recorded Future News.

She's been reporting on TikTok for months.

She joins us after the break to talk about the latest on a possible deal for an app that 170 million Americans use.

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Dina, welcome back to the program. Thank you so much. Last April, Congress passed a law requiring

bite dance at Stiktock's parent company to sell the app's

American assets to a non-Chinese owner if it wants to continue operating in the U.S.

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