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Inside China Tech: Protectionism on the rise with India app ban, China tech export controls
- India announced on Wednesday that it was banning another 118 Chinese apps including PUBG Mobile, Baidu and Alipay
- Huawei says it redirected investments from the US to Russia after it was placed on the former’s Entity List
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Following India’s initial ban of 59 Chinese apps including ByteDance’s TikTok and Tencent Holdings’ WeChat in June, the government announced on Wednesday that it was banning another 118 apps.
The latest list of blocked apps includes Tencent’s hit mobile game PUBG Mobile , Chinese search engine Baidu and Ant Group’s mobile payment app Alipay.
(Ant Group, which runs Alipay, is an affiliate of the Post’s parent company Alibaba Group Holding.)
In a statement on Wednesday, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said it decided to ban these apps “in view of information available they are engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”.
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India bans another 118 Chinese apps as border tensions escalate
India bans another 118 Chinese apps as border tensions escalate
However, analysts told us that the move was more likely an “economic retaliation” for border tensions between the two nuclear powers.
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