Amid reports that President Donald Trump plans to order TikTok';s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the social-media app';s US operations, Microsoft has emerged as a potential buyer.
I would think there are a lot bigger fish to fry when it comes to Chinese interests controlling western corporations, such as Apple, which is all but a Chinese company at this point, or the influence of Tencent, which has stakes in countless western
companies.
https://www.osnews.com/story/132148/microsoft-is-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-tiktoks-us-operations/
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