TikTok CEO’s Careful Testimony Got Him No Closer to a Resolution

Shou Chew during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in Washington, DC on March 23.Photographer: Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg

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By Alex Barinka and Anna Edgerton

March 23, 2023 at 11:26 PM UTC

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TikTok CEO Shou Chew, confronted with an unforgiving, distrustful Congress, tried to give answers in his testimony Thursday that avoided offending either the US government or China.

But his evasiveness left Congress unsatisfied, with representatives hungrier than ever to punish TikTok for ties to its parent company ByteDance Ltd., based in Beijing. And he didn’t bring his company any closer to a resolution.