India bans more Chinese apps in new wave of sanctions, hits Alibaba

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November 25, 2020 News Centre News 0 Image credit | smx12/bigstockphoto.com NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India banned 43 mobile applications on Tuesday including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s e-commerce app Aliexpress in a new wave of web sanctions targeted at China with whom it has engaged in a months-long standoff at a Himalayan border site. The forty three mostly Chinese origin apps, which also include a few dating apps, threaten the “sovereignty and integrity of India”, the technology ministry said in a statement. India has previously banned more than 170 apps saying they collect and share users data which could pose...