President Donald Trump was ready to let TikTok "go dark" — and that hardball stance forced China back to the negotiating table, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. But while Washington ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday that TikTok will have to stop operating in the United States if China does not approve a deal for the sale of the Chinese-owned short video app that is ...

The future of TikTok in the United States remains in the hands of Chinese officials, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said. During a CNBC interview on July 24, Lutnick said if China does not approve ...

July 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday that TikTok will have to stop operating in the United States if China does not approve a deal for the sale of the ...

"We've made the decision. You can't have Chinese control and have something on 100 million American phones," Lutnick told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" on Thursday. TikTok's future in the U.S. has ...

President Trump is starting “not to give a crap” if TikTok briefly goes dark as the end to the latest ban extension looms, On The Money has learned. Trump has tired of China dangling TikTok as a ...

TikTok will “go dark” if China does not cut a deal with the Trump administration that transfers control of the app’s technology and algorithm, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday.

Last month, President Donald Trump extended by 90 days to Sept. 17 a deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok. Dado Ruvic / REUTERS U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ...

In a wide-ranging CNBC Squawk Box interview on Tuesday, Bessent pointed to the turning point: "President Trump made it clear that he would have been willing to let TikTok go dark, that we were not ...