Microsoft’s Talks to Buy TikTok’s U.S. Operations Raise Ire in China

Washington’s ultimatum to the Chinese proprietor of TikTok—sell the app’s U.S. functions or depart the country—is hardening very long-held suspicions in China that the U.S. aims to sabotage the country’s endeavours to increase its technology, whilst elevating worries about the precedent it could set for Chinese providers with international ambitions as U.S.-China relations unravel.

Following months in which TikTok proprietor Bytedance Ltd. fought to appease the Trump administration, Washington’s push for Bytedance to sell TikTok’s U.S. functions to Microsoft…