SCMP: ByteDance board member ‘optimistic’ TikTok will find non-sale options in US, report says

What an ever changing story: forbidding, selling, allowing, reducing, participating … what will be the solution for TikTok, the app which influences our children and our society? Donald Trump seems to look at options while US billionaires (incl Elon Musk) would like to buy it.
The deal is important enough to be discussed on highest level, between President Xi and President Trump.
Can TikTok survive in the US and the West on its own?
What’s about free speech and non-censorship?