China Daily: China will not accept US 'theft' of TikTok


The United States' ‘bullying’ of Chinese tech companies was a consequence of Washington's zero-sum vision of ‘American first’ and left China no choice but ‘submission or mortal combat in the tech realm’, China Daily said in an editorial. — Reuters

SHANGHAI: China will not accept the "theft" of a Chinese technology company and is able to respond to Washington's move to push ByteDance to sell short-video app TikTok's US operations to Microsoft, the China Daily newspaper said on Aug 4.

The United States' "bullying" of Chinese tech companies was a consequence of Washington's zero-sum vision of "American first" and left China no choice but "submission or mortal combat in the tech realm", the state-backed paper said in an editorial.

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