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

Washington’s ultimatum to the Chinese owner of TikTok—sell the app’s U.S.

operations or leave the country—is hardening long-held suspicions in China that the U.S.

aims to sabotage the country’s efforts to grow its technology, while raising concerns about the precedent it could set for Chinese companies with global ambitions as U.S.-China relations unravel.