India Bans TikTok, Dozens of Other Chinese Apps After Border Clash

NEW DELHI—India banned dozens of Chinese cellular applications, including broadly made use of TikTok and WeChat, after a border clash involving troops from the two countries left 20 Indian soldiers lifeless this thirty day period.

New Delhi cited cybersecurity issues in blocking the Chinese applications from one particular of the biggest and swiftest-growing marketplaces in the entire world. A senior Indian governing administration formal explained the ban was imposed since the applications might have been made use of to hurt India’s defenses, as very well as to mail a message to China.

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