Posted on 10/30/2024 4:55:56 AM PDT by Cronos
on June 29, 2020, the Indian government banned TikTok, along with 58 other Chinese apps, after a simmering conflict between India and China flared into violence at their border.
...India’s online life soon adapted to TikTok’s absence. Meta’s Instagram swooped in with its Reels and Alphabet’s YouTube with Shorts, both TikTok-like products, and converted many of the influencers.
...The decision by India to cut its population off from TikTok was as sudden as the American efforts, which began in 2020, were protracted. But the motivation was similar — and even more dramatic. Whereas the United States and China are engaged in a new kind of cold war over economic dominance, India and China have had troops standing off at their border since 1962. In 2020, that frozen conflict turned hot. In one night of brutal hand-to-hand combat, 20 Indian soldiers were killed, along with at least four Chinese, which China never officially confirmed.
Two weeks later, India switched off TikTok. The app disappeared from Google and Apple stores, and its website was blocked. By then, India was well practiced in blocking objectionable websites and even shutting down mobile data across whole regions, in the name of maintaining public order.
...There were few other signs of retaliation by India, but this one action commanded the public’s attention. The list of Chinese apps that India has banned continues to grow, now to 509, according to Mr. Pahwa.
Indian officials had expressed concern that Chinese-owned apps could provide Beijing with a potent messaging tool within India’s raucous media environment. Just two months before the ban, India announced new restrictions on investments from any country “sharing land border with India.” Technically, that would apply to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan. But China was understood to be the real target.
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Not very BRIC-y of them.
” Technically, that would apply to Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan.”
I earn more at my 9-5 job than their GDP combined.
“Not very BRIC-y of them.”
Who knows, but it does seem that India is learning from the way we let China (and now other countries) pretty much end the US and Europe as industrial superpowers.
Does India have ugly trade deficits with China?
United States does.
“Europe as industrial superpowers.”
“Europe” never was an industrial superpower. It is a continent.
The industrial superpowers were the UK, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, etc. but not Spain, Portugal etc.
You just cited the fundamental defect underlying the so-called ‘bric-sters.’
So nothing happened? Do I have that right?
Nope. People moved to other platforms.
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