China state media blasts US ‘extortion’ over TikTok

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Twitter YouTube Chinese state media blasted Oracle’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 US 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 US of resorting to “extortion” in its efforts to compel the app’s owner, ByteDance, to...