Prominent state-backed newspapers in China issued more scathing editorials condemning a proposal to create a U.S.-controlled joint venture for the popular Chinese-owned app TikTok, ratcheting up pressure on its parent company ByteDance. “China has no reason to give the green light to such a deal, which is dirty and unfair and based on bullying and extortion,” state-owned newspaper China Daily...
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