What’s in the U.S.-China deal for an American TikTok spinoff
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the NewsHour. |
| 0:02.1 | After a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping today, |
| 0:05.5 | President Trump said a deal to spin off an American version |
| 0:09.1 | of the wildly popular social media app, TikTok, is, quote, well on its way. |
| 0:14.6 | A Chinese company developed and owns the app, |
| 0:17.1 | which raised concerns in the U.S. over national security and data privacy. |
| 0:21.9 | Nick Schifrin begins our coverage. |
| 0:25.4 | From communicative cappuccinos, |
| 0:28.4 | to presidential pop. |
| 0:33.6 | TikTok is a social media juggernaut. |
| 0:36.6 | With nearly 2 billion global users. TikTok is a social media juggernaut. As a piece of cake. |
| 0:38.3 | With nearly 2 billion global users, |
| 0:42.3 | including 170 million Americans. |
| 0:46.3 | And thanks to President Trump, it turns out that TikTok has nine lives. |
| 0:51.3 | The young people of this country want it badly. |
| 0:53.3 | The parents of those young people want it badly. The parents of those young people wanted badly. |
| 0:57.0 | Despite a law requiring TikTok to be banned in the U.S. |
| 1:00.0 | If it doesn't sever ties with its Chinese parent company, President Trump now says he made |
| 1:05.0 | a deal today with Chinese President Xi Jinping to save TikTok. |
| 1:09.0 | We're going to have very good control. |
| 1:11.6 | We have American. These are American investors. |
| 1:14.6 | An official familiar with the deal tells PBS NewsHour, |
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