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China has no reason to approve 'dirty' TikTok deal: China Daily

China has no reason to approve the “dirty and unfair” deal based on “bullying and extortion” that Oracle Corp and Walmart Inc said they struck with ByteDance, the state-backed English-language China Daily newspaper said on Wednesday.

The TikTok logo is pictured outside the company's US head office in Culver City, California, US, September 15, 2020. [REUTERS]

“What the United States has done to TikTok is almost the same as a gangster forcing an unreasonable and unfair business deal on a legitimate company,” it said in an editorial.

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