Indian Government bans 47 more Chinese Apps and major decisions taken by the Indian Govt.
                     Indian Government 
bans 47 more 
Chinese Apps and 
major decisions taken 
by the Indian 
Government
Introduction
The government of the Union has banned 47 
Chinese apps that operated as clones of the 59 
banned apps, said two people who were aware of 
the development. 
The Indian government blocked 59 Chinese 
applications in June, including the TikTok by 
Bytedance, Alibaba's UC browser, citing security 
concerns. 
2 Source: Livemint
The List
The government has officially drafted 
a list of 275 Chinese apps and will 
see if there are any violations in terms 
of national security and consumer 
privacy. 
3 Source: Quora
Major Names
According to a study in The Economic Times, 
Tencent-backed PubG, Alibaba-owned Ali 
Express, Xiaomi phone creator, Reso music 
streaming service operated by ByteDance 
among others are part of the government's list 
of applications that could be barred.
Source: Quora
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Cloning of Apps
• Since the government initially blocked 59 
Chinese apps, many of their clones and 
related apps soared to the top of rankings in 
Google Play. 
• Strange, just a few weeks ago, Likee Lite, a 
toned-down version of banned Likee, 
appeared on top of Google Play lists. 
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Source: Economic Times
Benefits to Other Chinese 
Apps
According to data from user analytics 
company Sensor Tower, Snack Video, which 
is owned by Chinese Kuaishou, earned 10 
million new downloads between June 29 and 
July 19.
This was about 59 times out of the 172,000 
downloads the app got between June 8 and 
June 28, which is the month before the ban.
Source: BGR India
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TikTok Maniacs
According to Sensor Tower, another device, 
Zili, which is published by smartphone stalwart 
Xiaomi, was the second-largest TikTok 
alternative. 
Over the same time, the firm found that Zili's 
downloads increased by 167 percent to almost 
8 million. 
7 Source: Business Insider
Indian Alternatives
At 71 million installs, Indian Roposo 
has the most lifetime downloads, 
followed by Zili at 51 million, and 
Dubsmash at 30.4 million.
Source: The Digital Hecker
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Reason for the Ban
In an interim order on 29 June, the Union 
Electronics and Information Technology 
Ministry said the apps were engaged in 
activities that are detrimental to India's 
sovereignty and independence, protection of 
India, state security and public order. 
Source: Inc42
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Consequences
The ministry subsequently sent 
these banned apps a list of 79 
questions and gave them three 
weeks' time to respond, failing which 
would lead to their permanent ban.
Source: Livemint
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Thank 
You
11 Source: APN