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India’s extensive filtering against China



Bloomberg quoted an informed source as saying: India’s Federal Ministry of Technology ordered the blocking of 138 betting apps and 94 credit services. This order was taken at the request of the Ministry of Interior, which supervises internal affairs such as national security. The blocked apps, some of which are Indian, are believed to have been transmitting data to China.

According to Aetna from Isna, the value of the Indian digital payment company Paytm rose after the release of this news. According to the report of the Economic Times newspaper, the lending applications that are blocked include the competitors of this company.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has banned Chinese tech giants from the Indian market since 20 Indian soldiers and a number of Chinese soldiers were killed in the Himalayan border clashes and banned hundreds of applications, including Tencent Holdings’ WeChat and ByteDance’s Tik Tok. has filtered

The Reserve Bank of India also made digital lending regulations stricter after realizing that some of these apps were harassing their customers.

According to a Bloomberg report, India has also restricted the presence of Chinese companies in other areas. In a move that will hit Xiaomi, the country plans to ban Chinese smartphone makers from selling phones cheaper than 12,000 rupees ($150) to support its domestic industry.

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