India bans more than 100 Chinese apps, including Tencent's video game 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds,' as tensions escalate on the border
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The Indian government has blocked a further 118 Chinese
Among the apps is the video game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds," published by Chinese tech giant Tencent, which has more than 50 million players in India. Tencent's stock fell 2% on the news.
Other banned apps include messaging site WeChat Work, search engine Baidu, and Alibaba's payment app, Alipay.China's commerce industry spokesman Gao Feng condemned the decision, and asked India to "correct their mistakes."
India banned 59 apps in June, including the video sharing platform TikTok, the most downloaded app in the country. This ban followed the clash of Indian and Chinese troops on the nations' Himalayan border, in which 20 Indian soldiers died.Local media reported that an Indian soldier was killed earlier this week by a Chinese landmine on the border.
"Predicting the accessibility of Chinese-owned apps in India and beyond is incredibly difficult at the moment," he said. "However, heightened geopolitical
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