
HONG KONG -- As the fate of the wildly popular streaming app TikTok hangs on complex negotiations between its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance and Microsoft, other Chinese software developers face a simpler lesson: forget about the U.S. market.
Nor would U.S. politicians welcome Chinese companies anyway. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused China-produced software of feeding user data to Beijing and hinted that a crackdown is under way.