The Wall Street Journal writes about this.
According to the newspaper, ByteDance received signals that the Chinese authorities consider banning the social network in the United States to be the most preferable option.
Earlier, former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that he had begun to assemble a consortium of investors to purchase the TikTok social network from the Chinese company ByteDance.
On March 13, the US House of Representatives passed a bill requiring China to sell TikTok under the threat of blocking the social network in the United States.