Trump, Xi Call Underway as They Aim to Finalize TikTok Deal (1)

A call between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping is underway, in a discussion that promises to determine the fate of TikTok — and potentially ease trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

The call between the leaders began at 8 a.m. Washington time on Friday, according to a White House statement.

The leaders are expected to discuss a framework agreement unveiled this week to shift control of TikTok’s US operations from its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. to a consortium of American investors.

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in 2017.

Photographer: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images

Details of the deal haven’t been announced, and Trump remained noncommittal in ...