Just a few days ago, the TikTok deal looked like a win for China. Now its state-run media are denouncing it as “an American trap” and a “dirty and underhanded trick”.
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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”.
China is unlikely to approve an “unfair” deal Oracle and Walmart said they have struck with ByteDance over the future of video-streaming app TikTok, the state-backed Global Times newspaper said in an editorial.
The TikTok sale saga reached an apparent conclusion over the weekend when US President Donald Trump approved a deal. But the harmony was short-lived.
Doubts emerged on Monday about Oracle’s deal to take over TikTok as US President Donald Trump said he may still renege on his approval and the Chinese government signalled reluctance.
ByteDance has emphasised it will remain in control of a hived-off TikTok Global business, appearing to contradict US President Donald Trump’s statements about how the new entity will be directed by Americans.
A US judge on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from requiring Apple and Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads.
US President Donald Trump said he supported a deal in principle that would allow TikTok to continue to operate in the US, even as it appeared to conflict with his earlier order for China’s ByteDance to divest the video app.
US President Donald Trump told Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Walmart’s Doug McMillon that he still wants the government to receive a payment as part of a deal for the US operations of TikTok.
The US commerce department issued order on Friday that will bar people in the US from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok.