TikTok on Tuesday denied sharing users' data with the Chinese government, after India banned the wildly popular app as ties with Beijing deteriorate sharply
's ByteDance, allows users to upload and share short videos and is spectacularly popular in India -- its 120 million users have made it the app's top international market.India issued a statement saying the firm has"not shared any information of our users in India with any foreign government, including the Chinese government".
He said the country has always asked Chinese firms to abide by international rules and local laws as they work with foreign parties, adding that China-India cooperation is mutually beneficial and damaging this is not in India's interest.But the border clash was the first deadly violence on their disputed Himalayan frontier in 45 years, claiming the lives of 20 Indian soldiers. Chinese casualties are unknown.
Ties were strained last August when New Delhi revoked the semi-autonomous status of Indian-controlled Kashmir and split off Ladakh -- parts of which are claimed byIndia shares US unease about growing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean and New Delhi has bolstered defence cooperation with Washington as well as Australia and Japan.'s backing of arch-rival Pakistan and the construction of an economic corridor going through parts of Kashmir controlled by Islamabad but claimed by India.
"Those who cast an evil eye on Indian soil in Ladakh have got a befitting response," Modi said in his weekly radio address on Sunday.With Asia's third-biggest economy dealt a sucker punch by the coronavirus, the apps ban fits in with Modi's vision outlined in May of a"self-reliant India" able to produce all it needs at home., with India's pharmaceutical, electronics and automotive sectors hugely reliant on imports of Chinese raw materials and components.
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