Potential TikTok buyers are lining up as President Trump and the Chinese government show heightened interest in striking a deal to sell the popular video-sharing platform in the face of a U.S.

Beijing was steeling itself for a first-week assault from Donald Trump. That hasn’t happened — yet — so Chinese leaders are making nice and hoping to cut a deal.

Within hours of his inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending the enforcement of a TikTok ban that had taken effect the previous day. The move tossed a lifeline to TikTok -- and its 170 million users in the United States.

Legal experts said despite Trump's order, service providers and app distributors such as Google and Apple still face major uncertainty and potential massive financial liability for defying a law that banned TikTok in the United States unless Chinese parent ByteDance divested the company by Jan.

TikTok still could not be downloaded from the Apple and Google app stores in the United States on Wednesday (January 22), trapped in legal purgatory by the two tech giants. Ryan Brooks reports. What happens to South Korea's Yoon now?

TikTok restored access to U.S. users Sunday afternoon following a brief outage, after a federal law took effect that bans companies from hosting TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps unless ByteDance divests from the apps,

ByteDance restored TikTok service in the United States on Sunday night, but major tech companies like Apple and Google have yet to restore downloads of the app. With no way to update TikTok, app rot may soon set in.