Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Quoted in New York Times About Possible TikTok Deal

Professor Alan Rozenshtein was quoted in the New York Times about the “framework for a deal” between the U.S. and China to avert a TikTok ban. The Chinese parent company ByteDance had in recent weeks been working toward having investors join its existing U.S. investors to lower its stake in TikTok to less than 20 percent. Further talks to “complete” the deal will take place this Friday. TikTok has reached the verge of a U.S. deal several times already, after a federal law required the Chinese-owned app to find a new owner by January or face a ban in the United States. Since January, the Trump administration has not enforced the law. Prof. Rozenshtein, who has written about the nonenforcement of the TikTok ban, said that he would “not believe this until I see a legally executed agreement.” He said that if an arrangement is finalized between China and the United States, it is not yet clear what the Trump administration might have to concede. He said, “China has a lot of leverage here.”