President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s progress on a TikTok deal this week could help bolster talks to allow parent ByteDance to divest the US assets of the short video app, experts said. Trump said on Truth Social on Friday that he appreciated “the approval of the TikTok Deal” from Xi, after a call between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies. Congress had ordered the app shut down for US users by January 2025 if its US assets were not sold by Chinese owner ByteDance. He has said he is worried a ban on the app would anger TikTok’s huge user base and disrupt political communications. The deal would transfer TikTok’s US assets to US owners from ByteDance, Reuters has reported.