India tried to launch a new round of crackdown on Chinese app on the grounds of “security threat”.
Recently, according to several Indian media reports, the Indian government will once again ban 54 Chinese applications on the grounds of so-called “security threats”. According to statistics, since June 2020, the Indian government has banned about 224 Chinese applications, involving enterprises including Tencent, Alibaba, Netease, etc.
At the same time, another recent ban on drones is also noteworthy. Why does the Indian government frequently suppress Chinese enterprises and investment?
According to a statement by the Indian Ministry of electronics and information technology, the Ministry has received a proposal from the Indian Ministry of the interior to ban 54 Chinese mobile phone applications in accordance with the emergency provisions proposed in Article 69, paragraph a, of the “Information Technology Act”, according to the global network on the 14th. The Ministry of electronics and information technology will officially issue a notice to disable these applications in India.
The Indian Express reported that according to section 69 A of the information technology act, the government “has the right to issue instructions on eavesdropping, monitoring or decrypting any information through any computer resources”. This is usually the case where the government is “convinced of the sovereignty or integrity of India, India’s national defense, national security, friendly relations with foreign countries or public order”, or “to prevent incitement to commit any identifiable crime related to the above-mentioned acts”, or “to investigate any crime”.
It is understood that the Chinese apps banned in India this time are mainly tools, games and video chat, involving enterprises including Tencent, Alibaba, Netease, etc.
The list of banned mobile app in India is also worthy of special attention. It is reported that “free fire” is a big escape survival shooting game, which was launched by Singapore sea group in 2017. Tencent is the largest shareholder of sea group, Bloomberg said. In January this year, Tencent announced that it would reduce its shareholding in sea from 21.3% to 18.7%, and finally reduce its voting rights to less than 10%. Data show that “free fire” is one of the most popular mobile games in the world, with more than 1 billion downloads on Google play. At the same time, this game is very popular in India and is the highest revenue mobile game in India in the third quarter of 2021.
India bans another 54 Chinese apps
