President Donald Trump suggested China could get a "little reduction in tariffs" if it helps approve a sale of TikTok in compliance with a U.S. law forcing its Beijing-based owner ByteDance to either divest the app to an American buyer or shut the platform down in the U.S.
Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday that "there are numerous ways you can buy TikTok, and we will find the one that's best."
"I'm worried about our country more than anything else with respect to TikTok, and China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly, in the form of an approval, maybe," Trump said. "And I think they'll do that. Maybe I'll give them a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done. You know, because every point in tariff is worth more money than TikTok."
"It sounds like something I'd do," he added.
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