How the Chinese owned app overtook its rivals and the senators who will now decide its future in the U.S..
Participants hold signs in support of TikTok outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC, March 13, 2024. Credit: Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images
TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance may soon face a stark choice in the United States — divest the wildly popular app or see it disappear from its biggest market. A bill that could force ByteDance’s hand swiftly passed the House last week, with bipartisan support, and will now be considered by the Senate. President Biden has already said he will sign the bill into law if it reaches his desk.
On March 13, 2024, TikTok's official account posted a video of CEO Shou Zi Chew responding to the
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Concrete outcomes are hard to discern, but Xi Jinping will see the treatment he received from Trump as a sign that China is now a peer of the United States.
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