Beijing Slams U.S. TikTok Divestment Pressure as 'Truly Ironic' 🇨🇳

China’s foreign ministry on Friday (March 15) criticised a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives for Chinese-based ByteDance to divest short video app TikTok within six months or face a ban.<br /><br />"It is truly ironic that the U.S. itself, a country that prides itself on freedom of speech and claims to be a free market economy, uses state power to suppress a specific company," said foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin at a regular briefing.<br /><br />WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news<br />SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar<br />LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline