Huawei's troubles around the world may be far from over, but another two Chinese tech companies have temporarily supplanted the Chinese telecom equipment maker as hot targets in an intensifying rivalry between the world's two biggest powers.
Bytedance, the parent company of the video-sharing sensation TikTok; and Tencent, which owns the super app WeChat, have found themselves in the United States' crosshairs in a geopolitical battle set against the backdrop of rising techno-nationalism.
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