{"id":123555,"date":"2021-02-10T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123555"},"modified":"2021-02-10T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T21:40:07","slug":"white-house-no-new-proactive-step-on-tiktok-deal-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-no-new-proactive-step-on-tiktok-deal-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: No New \u2018Proactive Step\u2019 on TikTok Deal Under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-no-new-proactive-step-on-tiktok-deal-under-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WASHINGTON\u2014The White House said on Wednesday it has an ongoing review of the risks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-tiktok\">TikTok<\/a> may present to U.S. data but stressed it has taken no new \u201cproactive step\u201d related to a pending plan for the Chinese-owned company\u2019s American operations to be acquired by U.S. investors.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. plan had been shelved indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters \u201cit is not accurate to suggest that there is a new proactive step by the Biden White House\u201d related to TikTok, a popular social media video service.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki added \u201cthere is a rigorous CFIUS process that is ongoing\u201d referring to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews deals by foreign acquirers for potential national security risks. She offered no timetable for its completion.<\/p>\n<p>She said there is a comprehensive ongoing administration review of the \u201crisks to U.S. data \u2026 including from TikTok, and will address them in a decisive and effective fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters on Wednesday, citing two people briefed on the matter, reported that the plan unveiled in September for U.S. investors, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-oracle\">Oracle<\/a> Corp and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-walmart\">Walmart<\/a> Inc, to buy a majority stake in TikTok\u2019s American operations could face months of additional reviews, as the new Biden administration conducts a wide-ranging review of Trump administration China policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3692692 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ByteDance-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"ByteDance\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People walk past the headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of video-sharing app TikTok, in Beijing on Sept. 16, 2020. (Greg Baker\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration had contended that TikTok poses national security concerns as the personal data of U.S. users could be obtained by China\u2019s government. TikTok, which has over 100 million users in the United States, has denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Three federal judges in separate rulings blocked U.S. Commerce Department orders issued under then-President Donald Trump that sought to bar new downloads of TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat and impose restrictions that would effectively bar their use in the United States. Those rulings are on appeal before U.S. circuit courts.<\/p>\n<p>A court hearing on one of the legal challenges is set for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Many key Biden administration officials are not yet in place to review TikTok\u2019s status. TikTok declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart declined to comment. Oracle did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Under pressure from the Trump administration, ByteDance, which owns TikTok, was in talks for months to finalize the deal with Walmart and Oracle to shift TikTok\u2019s American assets into a new entity to address U.S. security concerns. Those talks have continued since Biden took office last month, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>In early December, the Trump administration chose not to grant ByteDance a new extension of a divestiture order that Trump issued in August requiring the company to divest TikTok\u2019s U.S. assets. That gave the Justice Department the power to enforce the divestiture order once the deadline expired.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has taken no action to enforce the order.<\/p>\n<p><em>By David Shepardson and Steve Holland<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The White House said on Wednesday it has an ongoing review of the risks TikTok may present to U.S. data but stressed it has taken no new \u201cproactive step\u201d related &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3715,3653,5101,6248,4729,3765],"class_list":["post-123555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-deal","tag-house","tag-step","tag-tiktok","tag-under","tag-white"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}