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Significance
In doing so, the president gave himself 75 days to find a buyer for all or part of the popular app.
Impacts
China's leader, Xi Jinping, cannot be seen to intervene overtly; critics would take it as confirmation of Beijing's control over ByteDance.
The US chaos over TikTok will reinforce Beijing's belief in keeping foreign social media firms out of domestic markets in the first place.
Continued TikTok issues may deepen ideological differences among US Republicans.
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