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Trump taps Vance to negotiate sale of TikTok ahead of April deadline

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Vice President J.D. Vance has been tapped to broker a potential sale of TikTok to a U.S.-based entity, two people say.

It's unclear what type of arrangement, if any, owner ByteDance and China will agree to.

It remains unclear whether such a split would satisfy the ongoing national security concerns that spurred the ban in the first place.