China state media blasts US ࢀ˜extortionࢀ™ over TikTok

Twitter YouTube Chinese state media blasted Oracleࢀ™s proposed deal with the hit video app TikTok, calling the agreement hammered out under pressure from the Trump administration a ࢀœdirty and underhanded trickࢀ. ࢀœWhat the US has done to TikTok is almost the same as a gangster forcing an unreasonable and unfair business deal on a legitimate company,ࢀ 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 ࢀœunpalatable gambitࢀ and accused the US of resorting to ࢀœextortionࢀ in its efforts to compel the appࢀ™s owner, ByteDance, to…