India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China

Post by manojlds » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:37 PM UTC

_jgdh wrote: post #135

Aperocky wrote: post #127

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Why impose export restriction when the other party is doing it with import restrictions to the same effect

India's economy won't be affected by the loss of PUBG. But it will without certain critical parts of the manufacturing supply chain. I don't know what those parts are, but the Chinese govt will know. A good example of this in action is banning exports of rare earth metals to Japan in 2010, affecting Japan's electronics industry.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

addicted wrote: post #149

actuator wrote: post #95

I think this might be related to the Tibetan origin special forces soldier of Indian Army being killed in some recent altercation with PRC on their northern border.[1] I do think India is going on a slippery slope now. With Tiktok, one can even make a case of it being used to manipulate sentiments and being used for propoganda, but that argument can hardly be made for a game like PubG. It also brings into question wh…

The ruling government has destroyed the Indian economy with its arbitrary decisions. And sometimes the get the judiciary to chip in as well. The first real disaster to the Indian economy was the billions in retroactive taxes that were applied to telecoms. And then the attempt made by the government to break through the corporate firewalls and extract that money from foreign parents. That hit FDI immediately. That was…

Post by fma » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #126

fma wrote: post #72

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You're talking about the ecosystem in 2020, after the market is mature. Facebook was blocked by China in 2009. WeChat wasn't even started till 2011.

Facebook Messenger also "wasn't even started till 2011". Before 2011 China had very mature local messaging (QQ, from the company behind WeChat) and less mature but burgeoning social networking (loads of them I believe, including part of QQ). Cherry-picking the date of one next-gen product that later took over is meaningless.

Post by actuator » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC

t_minus_3 wrote: post #152

actuator wrote: post #95

I think this might be related to the Tibetan origin special forces soldier of Indian Army being killed in some recent altercation with PRC on their northern border.[1] I do think India is going on a slippery slope now. With Tiktok, one can even make a case of it being used to manipulate sentiments and being used for propoganda, but that argument can hardly be made for a game like PubG. It also brings into question wh…

India has all the right to protect its economy and people from chinese spying and tech dependency . Is nt that what US is doing with tariffs and bringing back jobs?? "Do they really want to start a trade war with China?" why not?? It already too late to stop china. India needs to protect its borders and economy from chinese incursions

Post by droopyEyelids » Wed, Sep 02, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

ideals wrote: post #54

So far in the news (that I consume) I only see countries being agressive towards Chinese software companies. I can't imagine this goes on and continues escalating long before China reacts strongly. What is China's response going to look like? I feel uneasy that their response is going to light the fire even more.