India has banned TikTok\, WeChat\, and other China-based apps

India has banned TikTok, WeChat, and other China-based apps

The Verge Monday, 29 June 2020 ()
India has banned TikTok, WeChat, and other China-based appsIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has banned TikTok, WeChat, and several dozen other China-based apps it views as “engaged in activities ... prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India,” according to India Today. A total of 59 apps are on the banned list.

India is a huge market for TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. According to SensorTower data from April, 30 percent of TikTok’s 2 billion downloads came from India. Messaging app WeChat, owned by Chinese internet company Tencent, has more than 1 billion users worldwide.

TikTok and WeChat did not immediately reply to requests for comment Monday.

It’s not the first time India has banned TikTok. Last year, the government instructed Google...
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 Amid the heightened tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian government on Monday took an unprecedented step and decided to ban at least 59 Chinese apps. The list of 59 mobile apps with their origin in China include TikTok, SHAREit, US Browser, Baidu map, Helo, Mi...