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After banning another tranche of Chinese apps for national security reasons, Beijing on Wednesday lashed out at India. This being the latest sore point between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
India banned 43 Chinese apps on Tuesday which includes some from e-commerce giant Alibaba — for threatening “sovereignty and integrity”.
China said it had “serious concerns” about the scheme and India’s “so-called pretext of upholding national security”.
“The relevant methods clearly violate market principles and WTO guidelines, and severely harm Chinese companies’ legal rights and interests,” said foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian at a regular press briefing in Beijing.
“India should immediately redress these discriminative methods to avoid even bigger damage to bilateral cooperation,” he said.
Earlier, New Delhi had pulled 59 Chinese apps — including the wildly popular video-sharing platform TikTok — from its large domestic market, with another 118 Chinese mobile applications banned in September.
The latest tranche of banned apps includes Alibaba’s AliExpress and delivery service Lalamove, as well as dating and live-streaming services.
Alibaba’s investments in the growing Indian online market include digital payments platform Paytm and online grocer BigBasket.
Pressures are high between Beijing and New Delhi following a deadly clash in a disputed border area which left 20 Indian soldiers dead and an unknown number of Chinese fatalities in June.
Anti-China sentiment has soared in India since the clash and sparked demands for a boycott of goods from the neighbouring country.
India’s imports from China, dominated by toys, cosmetics, home appliances, auto components and steel, totalled $74.9 billion last year, according to New Delhi.
As hopes get high over Covid-19 vaccines across the globe in recent days, world leaders are urging people to be patient even as the disease remains prevalent. Governments have ramped […]
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