India’s fresh ban on China-linked apps sounds alarm on rising business risks in South Asian market

India has banned 232 apps and websites, many with links to China, in a fresh illustration of the risks of doing business for Chinese tech companies in a market with around 1.4 billion consumers.

Local news agency ANI News tweeted that India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had started to ban and block the batch of betting and loan lending apps “with Chinese links on an ‘urgent’ and ‘emergency’ basis”.