TikTok’s CEO testified before the US Congress. It did not go well
Shou Zi Chew struggled to defuse security concerns about TikTok’s Chinese parent company.
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Katie Stallard
Katie Stallard is senior editor, China and global affairs, of the New Statesman. She is the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea, and a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington DC.
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