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Chinese state media blasted Oracle Corp. ’s proposed deal with the hit video app TikTok, calling the agreement hammered out under pressure from the Trump administration a “dirty and underhanded trick.†“What the United States has done to TikTok is almost the same as a gangster forcing an unreasonable and unfair business deal on a legitimate company,†the state-run China Daily wrote in a Wednesday opinion piece . That came after the Communist Party-backed Global Times tabloid called the TikTok deal an “unpalatable gambit †and accused the U.S. of resorting to “extortion†in its efforts to compel the app’s...
