TikTok owner ByteDance stays hands-off as video app faces US ban, leaving local team to become more aggressiveThe Chinese parent of TikTok has kept a safe distance from the troubles facing its short video app in the US, leaving the response to the local team and Singaporean CEO Chew Shou Zi as they face a possible legal battle against a forced sale or a ban, according to people briefed on the matter.ByteDance’s strategy is markedly different from four years ago, when then-US president Donald Tru...