Citing threats to its sovereignty and security as relations between the world’s two largest populations worsened.
India is banning 59 apps with Chinese links, saying their activities endanger the country’s sovereignty, defense and security. India’s decision comes as its troops are in a tense standoff with Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh in the Himalayas that started last month. — AP
The move marks another attempt by India to reduce dependence on its neighbour’s products and hampers efforts by China’s largest corporations to expand beyond their own borders – a collective endeavour encapsulated by TikTok’s phenomenal success abroad and particularly in India, ByteDance’s largest international market. The world’s most valuable startup responded by saying it wants to work with Modi’s government to improve security for its hundreds of millions of domestic users.
The unauthorised transmission and storage of Indian users’ data in overseas servers and “its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defense of India” is a matter of deep and immediate concern requiring the emergency measures, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in a statement on Monday. Representatives for Tencent and Baidu didn’t have immediate comment when contacted.
India, with its half-billion internet users, is an emerging arena for global technology companies from the US to China. As hundreds of millions of first-time users come online in India, they do so on Chinese smartphones. Myriad Chinese apps are their doorway to the Internet.
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