President Trump has just signed a deal sanctioning his plan to transfer operational control of TikTok to a consortium of American investors — noting he did so after a “very good talk with President Xi.”

Trump, who plans to meet Xi next month in South Korea on the sidelines of the APEC summit, said “we have great American investors,” but named only Larry Ellison of Oracle.

President Donald Trump signed a deal Thursday, ceding control of TikTok to American investors, after speaking with Chinese President Xi. AP

“I spoke with President Xi,” he said. “We had a good talk. I told him what we were doing and he said, ‘Go ahead with it.’”

Trump vowed that the newly American-run TikTok would treat “every philosophy” fairly — after complaints from US leaders that anti-US content got top billing

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