It may present a model for other countries from Europe to Southeast Asia that seek to curtail the pervasiveness of apps like ByteDance's TikTok while safeguarding their citizens' valuable data.
The spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in India, Ji Rong, said that the move has been discriminatory and selective, and may have violated World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.
As the phone market in China reaches saturation and sales shrink over all, the country's hardware makers are pushing hard, and increasingly winning fans, in places like France, Germany, India and Sout