Microsoft Corp said on Monday it was in talks with ByteDance to buy parts of TikTok.
Shanghai:
China will not accept the “theft” of a Chinese tech company and is in a position to respond to Washington’s decision to push ByteDance to sell US operations of the short video app TikTok to Microsoft, the newspaper said on Tuesday. China Daily.
The US’s “intimidation” of Chinese tech companies was a consequence of Washington’s zero-sum vision of “America First” and left China with no choice but to “submit. or lethal combat in technology, ”the state-backed newspaper said in a statement. editorial.
China has “many ways to react if the administration executes its smash and grab plan,” he added.
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it was in talks with ByteDance to buy parts of TikTok after US President Donald Trump reversed the course of a plan to ban the app on national security grounds and gave businesses 45 days to make an agreement.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said over the weekend that Trump would soon take action against Chinese software companies that shared user data with the Chinese government.
The also government-backed Global Times newspaper said the US treatment of ByteDance and Huawei Technologies, now on a US commerce blacklist, was indicative of US efforts to separate its economy from that of China. .
China had a “limited ability” to provide protection to these Chinese companies by retaliating against American companies because the United States had technological superiority and influence over its allies, he added.
“Opening up China to the outside world and the disintegration of the US decoupling strategy should be priorities,” he said in an editorial.
The Global Times is published by the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the ruling Communist Party in China.
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