On the evening of June 29, Twitter came abuzz with news of India biting the bullet and banning 59 Chinese apps, including mega apps such as TikTok, Camscanner, shareIT, Helo, WeChat, Weibo as well as games like Clash of Legends. While the government claimed that the decision to ban apps has been taken after considering months of feedback from concerned parties and citizens about data sovereignty, the timing of the ban — coming just weeks after the Chinese army’s incursion into the eastern Ladakh region — makes it a geopolitical. The government said that the banned Chinese apps posed a... This is an Inc42 Plus Member Exclusive story. Read this story on Inc42.Author: Suprita Anupam
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Date : 2020-09-09T14:55:11.000Z