India has banned 54 apps originating from China for security reasons. The apps banned by India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology include those owned by big tech companies in China such as Tencent, Alibaba, and NetEase and are reworked versions of apps that India had banned in 2020. Apart from the companies mentioned above, India also specifics describe which companies and apps are blacklisted.
The company mentioned is Sea.
Sea is a company founded in Singapore by a Chinese-born founder. Sea is focused on building its gaming and e-commerce business globally with support from Tencent, the company's largest shareholder.
Sea's flagship product is the Free Fire game.
Free Fire is one of the most popular mobile games in the world with over a billion downloads on Google Play. Fire Fire's fame has supported Sea's phenomenal growth so that it can expand into the Brazilian and Indian markets. In India, Free Fire also received widespread attention and became the best-selling game in the 2021 quarter until it was finally banned. Following the ban, Sea did not immediately respond or comment. India's Ministry of Home Affairs also had no comment on the matter.
Although they did not comment, the Indian community considered this ban due to bad relations between China and India. The dispute between China and India, which are separated by great distances, has been going on for a long time. Until now, the conflict between the two countries, especially in nuclear matters, has not been resolved. The conflict between the two led to bloodshed in 2020 and left both Chinese and Indian soldiers dead. After the fighting, India passed a law rejecting all forms of investment from China. India and China share an unmarked 2167,343-mile border along the Himalayas, where thousands of soldiers, tanks and artillery guns from both countries have gathered since then.
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