{"id":21333,"date":"2020-08-04T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T06:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/tiktok-china-hits-out-at-us-smash-and-grab-as-tech-row-deepens"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T06:18:20","slug":"tiktok-row-china-hits-out-at-us-smash-and-grab-as-tech-dispute-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21333","title":{"rendered":"TikTok row: China hits out at US &#8216;smash and grab&#8217; as tech dispute deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs spokesman accuses US of hypocrisy and editorial in state-run newspaper decries choice between submission at \u2018mortal combat\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US has offered China the \u201cchoice of submission or mortal combat in the tech realm\u201d, state media in Beijing have said, as the two rival powers manoeuvred on the thorny issue of splitting up TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>The popular video-sharing app has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/jul\/21\/mike-pompeo-praises-uk-decision-to-remove-huawei-from-5g-network\">joined Huawei<\/a> to become a technology flashpoint, with Chinese officials and media rushing to defend it following Donald Trump\u2019s threat of a US ban. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/04\/tiktok-china-hits-out-at-us-smash-and-grab-as-tech-row-deepens\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs spokesman accuses US of hypocrisy and editorial in state-run newspaper decries choice between submission at \u2018mortal combat\u2019The US has offered China the \u201cchoice of submission or mortal combat in the tech realm\u201d, state media in Beijing ha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,58,1496,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-technology","category-tiktok","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21334,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions\/21334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}