China State Media Blasts U.S. for ‘Extortion’ in TikTok Deal


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(Bloomberg) -- 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 owner,...