On December 16, a month before a US bill seeking to force Beijing-based ByteDance to divest its flagship app took effect, Chew, a Harvard-educated Singaporean, held a private meeting with Trump.
Trump previously advocated for a ban, then flip-flopped. He filed an amicus brief on Dec. 27 urging the court to pause the law. The actual parties in the TikTok case largely ignored Trump's filing ...