U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he will start talking to China on Monday or Tuesday about a possible TikTok deal. He said the United States "pretty much" has a deal on the sale of the TikTok short-video app.

There will be no sale of TikTok to American investors until Chinese President Xi Jinping is confident he has extracted as much as he can in terms of a favorable trade deal with the White House,

It’s been about five months since a law requiring TikTok to be banned in the United States unless it was sold off by its China-based parent company, ByteDance, technically went into effect.