<p>President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his demand for a piece of the action from any sale of TikTok's US operations for forcing such a deal.</p>.<p>TikTok has been at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and Trump gave Americans a deadline to stop doing business with TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance -- effectively compelling a sale of the app to a US company.</p>.<p>"Well, I told them that they have until September 15th to make a deal; after that, we close it up in this country," Trump told journalists.</p>.<p>"And I said that the United States has to be compensated -- well compensated -- because we are the ones that are making it possible, and so we should be compensated."</p>.<p>Critics have slammed Trump's call for the US government to get a cut of the deal, contending that it appears unconstitutional and akin to extortion.</p>.<p>The owner of popular video app TikTok vowed to "strictly abide" by new export rules in China which could potentially complicate a sale of the business as demanded by Trump.</p>.<p>China's commerce ministry last week published new rules that added "civilian use" to a list of technologies that are restricted for export.</p>.<p>The move marked the first time China has adjusted its list of technologies subject to export bans or restrictions since 2008, adding 23 new items.</p>.<p>The new regulations could make it more difficult for ByteDance to sell the wildly popular video app, which features clips of everything from dance routines and hair-dye tutorials to jokes about daily life and politics.</p>.<p>Walmart has confirmed joined forces with Microsoft in negotiations to buy TikTok. Oracle is also reported to be interested in TikTok.</p>.<p>CEO Kevin Mayer last week quit the company, days after TikTok filed a lawsuit challenging the crackdown by the US government.</p>.<p>TikTok -- which has been downloaded 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world -- argued in the suit that Trump's order was a misuse of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act because the platform is not "an unusual and extraordinary threat."</p>.<p>Trump claims that TikTok could be used by China to track the locations of federal employees, build dossiers on people for blackmail and conduct corporate espionage.</p>.<p>TikTok -- used by as many as a billion people worldwide to make quirky, short-form videos on their cellphones -- has repeatedly denied sharing data with Beijing.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his demand for a piece of the action from any sale of TikTok's US operations for forcing such a deal.</p>.<p>TikTok has been at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and Trump gave Americans a deadline to stop doing business with TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance -- effectively compelling a sale of the app to a US company.</p>.<p>"Well, I told them that they have until September 15th to make a deal; after that, we close it up in this country," Trump told journalists.</p>.<p>"And I said that the United States has to be compensated -- well compensated -- because we are the ones that are making it possible, and so we should be compensated."</p>.<p>Critics have slammed Trump's call for the US government to get a cut of the deal, contending that it appears unconstitutional and akin to extortion.</p>.<p>The owner of popular video app TikTok vowed to "strictly abide" by new export rules in China which could potentially complicate a sale of the business as demanded by Trump.</p>.<p>China's commerce ministry last week published new rules that added "civilian use" to a list of technologies that are restricted for export.</p>.<p>The move marked the first time China has adjusted its list of technologies subject to export bans or restrictions since 2008, adding 23 new items.</p>.<p>The new regulations could make it more difficult for ByteDance to sell the wildly popular video app, which features clips of everything from dance routines and hair-dye tutorials to jokes about daily life and politics.</p>.<p>Walmart has confirmed joined forces with Microsoft in negotiations to buy TikTok. Oracle is also reported to be interested in TikTok.</p>.<p>CEO Kevin Mayer last week quit the company, days after TikTok filed a lawsuit challenging the crackdown by the US government.</p>.<p>TikTok -- which has been downloaded 175 million times in the US and more than a billion times around the world -- argued in the suit that Trump's order was a misuse of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act because the platform is not "an unusual and extraordinary threat."</p>.<p>Trump claims that TikTok could be used by China to track the locations of federal employees, build dossiers on people for blackmail and conduct corporate espionage.</p>.<p>TikTok -- used by as many as a billion people worldwide to make quirky, short-form videos on their cellphones -- has repeatedly denied sharing data with Beijing.</p>