Trump administration behaved like a ‘gangster’ to push the U.S. TikTok deal and Beijing has ‘no reason’ to approve it: Chinese media

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-1.16% when it was forced by Washington to hand over its U.S. operations under the threat of an outright ban . The U.S. government balked at a first version of the deal that kept the Chinese in control of the popular videosharing app. Read: China flexes its muscles in Hong Kong with arrest of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai The outlook: It looks like the White House-sanctioned deal wasn’t quite a deal after all. But it is still hard to tell whether the Chinese media editorials signal Beijing’s outright opposition to any form of agreement, or whether they just amount...