NEW DELHI, June 2 — India’s top trending free app on Google’s mobile app store, with more than five million downloads since late May, is called “Remove China Apps” and does exactly what it says on the label. Its popularity comes amid calls for a boycott of Chinese mobile apps in India as...
Remove China Apps is seen in the Google Play store on a mobile phone in this illustration taken June 2, 2020. — Reuters pic
Popular Indian yoga guru Baba Ramdev posted a video on Twitter on Sunday showing the step-by-step deletion of several Chinese apps, a move he described as a “national service”. OneTouch AppLabs, which has developed the app to remove Chinese ones, did not respond to a request for comment. The company, based in the western Indian city of Jaipur, describes the app as its first initiative toward a “self reliant India”.
“Previous boycott calls have focused on Chinese goods, whereas this one especially targets Chinese apps, which could impact Chinese technology companies who have seen India as a crucial market,” said Tanvi Madan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who closely tracks Indo-China relations.
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