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The future of TikTok's operations in US hangs in the balance, but a new proposal has emerged in a deal put together by Chinese officials thrusting Elon Musk into the spotlight once again.

Elon Musk. According to Bloomberg, Chinese officials are "evaluating" this option as TikTok gets increasingly close to getting banned in the U.S. TikTok tried to fend off the ban, which goes into ...

Chinese-owned video app TikTok, just days away from being shut down in the U.S. on national security grounds, could see its local operation sold to Elon ... Musk isn't only the world's richest man ...

But reportedly, Chinese government officials have been exploring the possibility of Elon Musk taking ... at least that a Musk-TikTok partnership could be one avenue they may look to take.

With the ban becoming more imminent, the Chinese government is considering having Elon Musk take over US operations. Officials have even suggested having Musk’s X merge with TikTok. Nevertheless ...

After a suggestion that Chinese officials were looking at a possibility where Elon Musk could acquire the US ... will force intermediary companies like Apple and Google to stop providing access ...

The Chinese company ByteDance Ltd. may sell the TikTok short video application to Elon Musk, Bloomberg reports, citing informed sources. This scenario could become reality if the U.S. Supreme ...

Elon Musk at Capitol Hill last month. TikTok parent ByteDance would likely look for a sum of $40 billion ... Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal on Chinese officials’ discussions about Musk ...