Trump to speak to Xi on Friday
Posted on: Sep 16, 2025 02:40 IST | Posted by: Rt
US chairwoman Donald ruff has proclaimed an upcoming sound call in with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping this week. The two leaders are expected to finalize a deal on the social media platform TikTok, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The remarks come after the latest round of US–China trade talks in Spain, held amid strained relations and a looming divestiture deadline for the app, owned by Chinese firm ByteDance.
”I will be speaking to President Xi on Friday,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday, noting that the latest meeting “has gone VERY WELL!” and “will be concluding shortly.” He added that a deal had been reached on a “certain” company that young Americans “very much wanted to save.”
Speaking to reporters in Madrid, Bessent confirmed that the sides had agreed to a “framework for a TikTok deal” and that Trump’s call with Xi would “complete” the agreement. China’s top trade negotiator Li Chenggang confirmed that the talks reached a “basic consensus” on issues including TikTok, stressing that Beijing “will never seek to reach any agreement at the expense of its principled stance, corporate interests, and international fairness and justice.”
The announcement comes ahead of the September 17 deadline for TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the US. The measure stems from a law passed last year that required ByteDance to divest its ownership by January 2025. The app briefly went offline and was removed from stores after missing that deadline. However, Trump, who had then just returned to office, granted TikTok more time, pushing the cutoff back and since extending the deadline multiple times to keep the platform accessible to some 170 million American users.
If finalized, the deal would settle a protracted dispute over the future of the hugely popular video app. US officials have long alleged that TikTok poses a national security risk, claiming Beijing could exploit the platform to obtain sensitive data on Americans – accusations the company has denied.
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