Treasury says a TikTok deal is ‘between two private parties,’ yet presidents Trump and Xi will personally finalize it. That blurs private M&A with head‑of‑state statecraft and sets a precedent for governments to dictate who owns global social networks under the banner of national security.
— It signals a new governance model where platform control is negotiated at the geopolitical level, reshaping norms for tech ownership, speech infrastructure, and cross‑border regulation.
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The deal would place a top U.S. game publisher under effective control of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, echoing the broader pattern that platform ownership is now a geopolitical question, not merely a private transaction.
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The article describes a White House–led arrangement—paired with asserted Chinese approval—under which TikTok’s core algorithm would be copied, retrained on US data, and operated under US oversight, echoing the idea that heads of state now directly negotiate who controls global platforms and their tech stacks.
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Scott Bessent’s statement and the announced Trump–Xi Friday meeting to seal the TikTok framework before a divest‑or‑ban deadline.