TikTok

Wall Street Journal -   Beijing hasn’t vociferously defended the country’s first mobile app to break through globally, despite describing similar maneuvers as an attempt to suppress a Chinese company and an example of U.S. hypocrisy. But Beijing’s response in part reflects the view that TikTok is of less strategic value to China’s quest to become an industrial and technological powerhouse, people familiar with the matter said. China’s State Council didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who visited China this week, said that TikTok didn’t come up in his conversations with officials. TikTok owner ByteDance said on a media platform it owns called reports that it is exploring selling its TikTok’s U.S. operations untrue. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for further comment and declined to comment about Beijing’s response.