CNBC’s “Fast Money” team discusses the progress of the TikTok deal between the U.S. and China, trade negotiations and more with Dewardric McNeal, managing director and senior policy analyst at Longview Global.

A senior policy analyst at Longview Global, DeWard McNeil, discussed the potential national security implications of a proposed TikTok deal between the US and China. McNeil noted that while details remain unclear, current information suggests the deal may not fully comply with US laws designed to prevent foreign adversarial control, particularly regarding the control of TikTok's algorithm.

McNeil emphasized that for China, the negotiations are largely about optics and maintaining leverage, rather than core strategic interests. He also expressed concern over the lack of discussion about Taiwan in recent US-China talks and highlighted ongoing tensions over technology restrictions and trade. McNeil concluded that while leader-to-leader communications are important, significant progress toward a comprehensive US-China trade agreement remains distant.

Longview: TikTok deal may have potential national security impact

Let's go more on the talks between China and the US in the future of tick-tock and all sorts of other things We're joined by CNBC contributor to wardrobe McNeil who served in the Obama administration. He's now senior policy analyst at Longview global DeWard are great to see you I want great to see you as well. I want to focus in on this tick-tock deal while we know very few details There's one detail that Eamon did talk about just now and that is the idea of who controls the algorithm In the vice commerce minister earlier this week I believe it was said specific said very clearly that regardless of what deal it is It's not going to violate Chinese principles And I would imagine that Chinese principles would include control of that algorithm which was developed by the company what's your take on on whether or not a deal like this, even though we only know sort of the The vague shadows of the deal right now whether that actually complies with what China thinks would be right in principle Yeah, this is a very important point here, Melissa Because what you have now is what we've talked about for a while and that's dueling laws and regulatory Regimes and I will reserve comments until I see the details of the deal but what's coming out on the US side at least from where I Am and sitting does not adhere to the protecting Americans against foreign adversarial control applications That is the law which talks about complete divestiture including the algorithm here, Melissa So, you know again, I want to reserve judgment until I see it But so far it doesn't seem like this is going to adhere to that law Order what does China gain by this? I mean at the end of the day again, Melissa's brought up this issue of principle They can stand behind principle and I think they will and on a lot of levels we've seen since the trade war Negotiations really got going in earnest that China has made it clear That they are going to hold their ground and largely to this point not only have held their ground But are in much better shape than most would have expected them to be so why do they do this deal? And what do you think the trade-off was? Yeah, this is also a good question here Tim. Look I think for China This is all optics and Principle it is showing that it has the leverage to really defend and protect this interest its companies And so I don't think this is a core issue really for China But they will continue to show the rest of the world and us That they have agency here and that they can make sure that it's clear that these are their laws their rules their way And we're going to negotiate for the best deal for Chinese companies. That's what I think they get out of this Tim Dworak, let me build upon Tim's fantastic question and ask Where does Taiwan play in all this? So they have pawn in this game somehow Is there you know their levers being pulled that you give us this will give you that will back off on the Taiwan front Guy again, you guys are on it today. Look, I think I'm very concerned that the lack of a Taiwan Discussion here in Washington in this administration. I don't think this came up today in this call and and why because we learned that over the summer a 400 million dollar a package of defensive weapons that we had agreed to sell to Taiwan Did not go through this is music to China's ears. And so I don't know that Taiwan is a pawn I don't think that Taiwan unfortunately is even an issue and that should be concerning to a lot of people Just this week to wardrobe China told its companies in China to not buy in video chips another it's not we're not the h20 But it's it's another an RTX 6000 D that has AI uses and so it continues with this drumbeat of don't buy American technology because we're afraid of the national security risk on the Chinese side and So I'm wondering to wardrobe if you think at the end of the day here given this This conversation between she and Trump if we're any better off if we're any closer to some sort of trade deal if there's going to be any more progress in at APEC or if if your view of the situation is the same as earlier this week before the call Well, look, I don't want to downplay a leader-to-leader call That's always important in terms of moving the Dow on the core issues though, Melissa I don't think that we are there Let me just quickly say that what I hope to see happen when they meet on the sidelines At APEC is a discussion about critical minerals that deal is set to sunset and the first week of December we don't have an answer for critical minerals I think that's a very important thing for us to keep at the the forefront here So again, I think this is an important call It's an important step, but I think we're a long ways away from some sort of comprehensive deal between the US and China on trade There's a lot of things still left to discuss You

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