China says it won’t approve TikTok sale, calls it ‘extortion’

Don’t listen to what nations say, see what they do, which goes for both countries.

Country who pioneered the practice of forced IP transfers and state-sponsored IP theft reacts with shock and horror when a single one of their own companies is met with similar anti-competitive treatment.

China systematically blocks Western companies from operating in China without handing over IP or source code. Huawei for example, a company with an extensive history of being state sponsored, had a program that rewarded employees with direct cash incentives for delivering stolen IP to the company.