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| DATE | 2020-06-29 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] I would have any app on my phone owned by the
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India Bans TikTok, Dozens of Other Chinese Apps After Border Clash
UC Browser and WeChat are among the banned mobile apps
A protester in Kolkatta, India, demonstrated against TikTok after a
border clash between China and India left 20 Indian soldiers dead this
month.
Photo: Debarchan Chatterjee/Zuma Press
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Updated June 29, 2020 8:01 pm ET
NEW DELHI—India banned dozens of Chinese mobile apps, including widely
used TikTok and WeChat, after a border clash between troops from the two
countries left 20 Indian soldiers dead this month.
New Delhi cited cybersecurity concerns in blocking the Chinese apps from
one of the largest and fastest-growing markets in the world. A senior
Indian government official said the ban was imposed because the apps
might have been used to harm India’s defenses, as well as to send a
message to China.
Rising tensions since the clash between the Indian and Chinese armies
along their disputed border in the Himalayan mountains have been
accompanied in India with calls for the government to retaliate against
China.
“This is India’s first salvo to China after the border clashes, showing
that India has a diverse range of retaliatory options,” the official said.
He said India’s move might lead more countries to act similarly.
Regulators in Washington are already formally weighing whether TikTok
poses a national-security risk to the U.S.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, calling the
issue “a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires
emergency measures,” said in a written statement that it had received
multiple complaints about misuse of some mobile apps for the theft and
unauthorized, surreptitious transmission of users’ data to servers
outside India.
“The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements
hostile to national security and defense of India…ultimately impinges
upon the sovereignty and integrity of India,” the ministry said.
The banned mobile apps include Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ’s UC Browser,
a web browser, and Tencent Holdings Ltd. ’s WeChat messaging platform,
which has more than 1.2 billion monthly active users world-wide. UC
Browser and WeChat have found audiences in Asian countries such as India
and Indonesia.
Video app TikTok, owned by Beijing-based Bytedance Ltd., is popular with
Indian youths and has dominated the social-media landscape in terms of
users along with WhatsApp, owned by Facebook Inc.
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