{"id":19852,"date":"2020-06-30T02:48:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/india-bans-tiktok-after-himalayan-border-clash-with-chinese-troops"},"modified":"2020-06-30T02:48:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T17:48:26","slug":"india-bans-tiktok-after-himalayan-border-clash-with-chinese-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19852","title":{"rendered":"India bans TikTok after Himalayan border clash with Chinese troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government blacklists more than 50 Chinese-made apps, citing \u2018threat to sovereignty\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Indian government has banned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a>, the hugely popular social media app, as part of sweeping anti-China measures after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/shock-and-anger-in-india-after-worst-attack-on-china-border-in-decades\">a violent confrontation between Indian and Chinese troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok is one of more than 50 Chinese-made apps that have been banned by the Ministry of Information over concerns that they \u201cpose a threat to sovereignty and security\u201d of India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/29\/india-bans-tiktok-after-himalayan-border-clash-with-chinese-troops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government blacklists more than 50 Chinese-made apps, citing \u2018threat to sovereignty\u2019The Indian government has banned TikTok, the hugely popular social media app, as part of sweeping anti-China measures after a violent confrontation between Indian and C&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,62,1496,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-india","category-tiktok","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19853,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19852\/revisions\/19853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}