TikTok’s Fate Rests on Trump After Supreme Court Upholds Law (2)

The US Supreme Court has ended TikTok’s nine-month legal battle, forcing leaders both within the company and in Beijing to consider a dwindling set of alternatives for keeping the popular video-sharing app alive.

TikTok’s China-based parent, ByteDance Ltd., can agree to sell the app’s US operations — a path the company has said it has no interest in pursuing — or wait to see if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise to orchestrate a solution. No matter the scenario, Trump promises to be at the center of the process, either by successfully stalling the ban set ...