Donald Trump is once again president — and he's already signed a slew of executive orders. Federal employees have been ordered to return to the office full time. A "national energy emergency" has been declared.

In his first few days back in office, President Trump is talking about TikTok entirely as a deal making exercise, dropping all of his previously expressed concerns about Chinese influence and American national security.

Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty and other investors have submitted a bid to buy TikTok from China-based ByteDance after a court-ordered divestiture or shutdown.

United States President Donald Trump is seemingly using TikTok, a popular social media platform owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, as a bargaining chip for Sino-US economic and trade relations, experts and market insiders said on Tuesday.

In a special episode of Left, Right and Centre broadcast live from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, American journalist Ben Smith discussed a wide range of issues, from US President Donald Trump's move to 'save' TikTok in the US to the war in Ukraine and Gaza.

An early payoff has already been scored by TikTok, the video-sharing app that spent months currying favor with the then-candidate Trump in hopes that if he won the election, he would help it survive a threatened shutdown.

TikTok if Elon Musk or others pursue a buyout. Speaking to Al-Arabiya TV during the World Economic Forum at Da

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IN 2017, weeks after Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese head of state to address the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland – winning applause as he inveighed against protectionism and declared that a trade war would hurt both sides.

Hollywood’s silence reveals the contours of our escalating conflict with China; we’re digesting the war on TikTok, instead.

A board member at TikTok’s parent company said that a deal to save the app from disappearing in the United States will be done soon.

Al Gore reacts to Trump’s withdrawal of US from the Paris climate agreement Former US Vice President Al Gore joins other world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos in a session focused on climate and the 10th anniversary of the historic Paris Agreement It comes just days after Donald Trump ordered the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.