On Monday, India banned 59 Chinese mobile apps, including TikTok and WeChat, over national security and privacy concerns – two weeks after a deadly Himalayan border clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
Relations between the world’s two most populous nations have been strained following the deaths of 20 Indian troops in hand-to-hand fighting with their Chinese counterparts on the western end of the high-altitude, contested border in mid-June.
Source: Security Week