US-China Tiktok Agreement: Laws compliance, Congress approval and challenges. Explain

A framework agreement that will enable the Tiktok app in the BiteDance possession to operate in the United States was announced on September 16, but there are still many questions about the details. When US and Chinese officials announced the agreement after trade talks in Madrid, they said China agreed to transfer the ownership of the video division platform to a US company but did not share details, Reuters reported. Here is a look at some of the urgent questions that have risen in the midst of this process. What happens to tapping in the US? As US President Donald Trump announced the expansion of the Tiktok ban (there are three consecutive extensions since January 2025), to allow negotiations, Chinese authorities have constantly resisted to hand over the asset to a US company. The algorithm -derived app is commonly seen as the most value asset and growth manager of BiteDance, according to the report. He added that China updated its export control rules to include technologies such as recommendation algorithms in 2020, when Donald Trump first suggested selling tiktok to a US company. What this rule does make it necessary for bite dance to ask for the approval of the Chinese government before any transfer is realized. What about the US government? Is the approval of Congress necessary? Yes. Also in the US, the final agreement would require that the congress (majority by Republicans) stamp its stamp. The house approved a law in 2024 that requires bite dance to sell if tapping checks in the US to continue. The decision was made about the fear that the Chinese government could gain access to US user data, spy on citizens or generate influence through the app. However, there is a debate if Donald Trump’s expansions of deadline are in the case outside his authority and should have gone through the house first. The US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent letters to Apple, Google and other companies in February in February confirming that the Justice Department would not in conflict to allow Tiktok access to their devices and platforms while negotiations are running. A congress assistance spoke to Reuters, saying that legislators intended to investigate the latest agreement when made public to see if it complied with the law. Would they, don’t you? China ownership of Tiktok under scanner One issue is whether bite dance will be fully sold from Tiktok SU after the agreement will be sold. Trump answered a question at a press conference of Oval Office on whether China would hold China in Tiktok: “We haven’t decided it yet, but it seems to me and I talk to President XI on Friday for confirmation.” Senate Committee chairman Tom Cotton said in April that US investors who want to buy Tiktok should cut all ties with China. The current BiteDance shareholders include US firms Susquhanna International Group, General Atlantic and KKR. If Congress rejects the latest agreement, Trump may have a limited profession. In January, the Supreme Court ruled the law unanimously, which was approved by an overwhelming dual majority in Congress last year and signed by former Democratic President Joe Biden, not violating the US Constitution’s first amendment protection against the government’s barn of free speech. Who will control tapping after its sale? Officials expect the final agreement to be much the same as expected under the previous agreement set out in April, which would eliminate Tiktok’s US operations in a new US firm owned by US investors. This stopped after China indicated that it would withhold its approval after Trump’s announcements of steep rates on Chinese goods. The exact structure of the new expected ownership remains unclear. (With input of Reuters)