TikTok CEO Shaw Tzu Chu corresponded with Elon Musk after Donald Trump’s election as US president and asked the billionaire’s opinion “on a variety of issues.” Chapter X and Tesla are seen as mediators in negotiations with the new president’s administration.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Chu, who has known Musk for several years, sought the opinion of the businessman close to Trump on various topics: from the new administration to possible technology policy.
According to the newspaper’s sources, TikTok is considering Musk as a potential mediator in negotiations with the new presidential administration regarding a possible ban on the platform in the United States. At the same time, the parties did not discuss specific ways to preserve TikTok in the country.
Chu has reportedly briefed executives at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, about the talks with Musk, and ByteDance is “cautiously optimistic” about what could happen next.
According to the WSJ, after the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, senior managers at many large companies began turning to Musk “for advice.”
In 2020, during his previous term as president, Trump signed an executive order banning TikTok and WeChat in the United States, which was later blocked in court.
In April 2024, the US Senate voted in favor of a bill that would require China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to a local investor. Otherwise, in 2025 the platform will be banned in the United States and will lose its largest market.
In early November, even before the results of the US presidential election were counted, experts said that if Trump wins, the “extremely pro-China” Elon Musk could become a mediator between the US and China on technological and commercial issues.
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