In the early morning of June 30, the Indian government announced in the evening of the 29th that the Indian Express, Hindustan Times, India Today and other Indian media would ban 59 Chinese apps including WeChat, TikTok, Meitu, and Baidu Maps. Apps used in India, these 59 Chinese apps will be banned from use on mobile and non-mobile platforms on the grounds that “these apps engage in activities that are detrimental to India’s sovereignty and integrity, national defence, national security and public order.”
Original text of the Indian government announcement (image source from the Internet)
Under the ban, Google and Apple will have to remove these apps from the Android and iOS stores. Google said it was still waiting for the government order, and Apple and ByteDance have not yet responded.
Judging from the banned list, most of the 59 banned applications are short video, social media, cross-border e-commerce and tool applications. In addition to TikTok and WeChat, those banned include the overseas version of Kuaishou KWAI, UC Browser and UC NEWS owned by Alibaba, Baidu Translate and Baidu Maps owned by Baidu, Mi Video (Mi Video) and Micommunity (overseas version of Xiaomi Community) ), HELO, a social media platform owned by ByteDance, Beauty Plus and Meitu Overseas Edition, a selfie software owned by Meitu, multiple applications owned by Tencent, NetEase Mailbox, Sina Weibo, etc.
Life service applications that some Chinese companies have invested in, such as Paytm, the “Indian version of Alipay” invested by Alibaba, and OLA, the taxi-hailing software invested by Didi, are not included in the list. In addition, the mobile version of the “chicken-eating” game PUBG owned by Tencent, which is very popular in India, is not on the banned list.
According to third-party statistics, Chinese APPs accounted for 30%-40% of the Indian market in 2019. Among them, China’s share ranked first in both the free list and the best-selling list of game APPs; non-game APPs The free list ranks second. According to the Times of India, this action may cause millions of dollars in losses to relevant Chinese companies.
India’s banned list and related companies
The momentum of boycotting Chinese products in India is growing in India There has been an upward trend. Before this, there had been activities among Indian people to “uninstall Chinese apps”, but the government had never expressed a positive stance. This announcement is the first time.
Some customers also expressed their opinions and confirmed the authenticity of the news:
Also Yesterday, some readers reported in the background that orders, goods were abandoned, payment was refused, etc. Mike Foreign Trade reminded foreign traders who have business related to the Indian market in the near future, please be sure to pay attention to the risk control of collection and delivery to avoid Any unnecessary losses will occur!
The boycott sentiment in India is rising! Customs detains goods, express delivery is stopped, and hotels reject Chinese people!
The Sino-Indian conflict deliberately provoked by India has heightened anti-China sentiment among the Indian people. Last week we have sorted out the local situation in India, including:
Beating, smashing, and burning Chinese goods;
The Indian Trade Organization will More than 500 Chinese products have been added to the boycott list;
The Indian government is considering increasing taxes on 300 Chinese products; etc.
Things have continued to escalate this week and have now affected a large number of goods exported from China to India.
01 Customs Inspection Upgrade
In China’s “India Logistics” social media, someone uploaded a photo of Chennai customs declaration An email from The Chennai Customs Brokers Association on June 23 pointed out that the Customs has issued an internal order to ports, terminals and airports to temporarily detain all goods imported from China for inspection, including goods for which the Customs has issued a release order, and they also need to be detained again. Check.
Although a subsequent email from the Chennai Customs Brokers Association stated that everything was normal, the Indian government’s “black-box operation” has been The media broke out.
In this operation, Chennai Port was one of the first ports to adopt strict review measures for imported goods from China. According to past practice, after submitting the entry list, about 70% of imported goods will pass through the green channel and clear customs smoothly, and only 30% of imported goods will be inspected, but now 100% of the imported goods must be inspected. The move was copied by other major ports in India.
Foreign media reports
Indian media “Aanchal Magazine” June 26.”Hindustan Times” also pointed out that due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, many hotels in the Indian capital have not opened.
The village of Kondhawe-Dhawade in Pune, Maharashtra, India, passed a decision on June 24 to ban Chinese goods, marking this as all Prerequisites for tendering. It clearly requires contractors for infrastructure work not to use products and machines made in China. It also calls on local shop owners not to sell mobile phones of Chinese brands and give priority to selling local products.
Xiaomi, which is booming in the Indian mobile phone market, has begun to cover up its storefronts and logos with huge “Made in India” slogans. Guinness, the owner of Xiaomi’s Mumbai store, said, “The person in charge of the company asked us to do this because we want to protect ourselves from potential impact from demonstrators or politicians. Anti-China sentiment is very high now.” But he also pointed out that “the market demand for Xiaomi smartphones has not decreased at all, and people continue to buy them happily.”
TikTok has also been affected in the Indian market. Since the conflict between China and India, its competitor, Indian local software Mitron, has been downloaded as much as one month after its release. 5 million times. Another Douyin competitor, American Fireworks short video, has seen a 30% increase in Indian users since May. A report by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower shows that TikTok’s new downloads in India dropped from 23.5 million in April to 10 million in June (as of June 22).
06 Crisis-ridden India
On June 25, India’s largest The Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO), an export promotion organization, said that while New Delhi should work to reduce its dependence on Chinese goods, boycotting Chinese goods may not be feasible as India relies on Chinese imports.
The Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO), the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), MAIT representing IT hardware manufacturers, mobile phone industry lobbying organization ICEA, etc. have collectively given Indian business The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance wrote to demand that 100% review of Chinese goods be stopped immediately. They said if authorities continued to withhold shipments from China, it would clog ports and cause serious delays in deliveries.
India is currently in serious trouble. The COVID-19 epidemic is spreading across the country, with more than 10,000 new confirmed cases per day for 18 consecutive days, and the total number of confirmed cases currently ranks fourth in the world. Not only that, typhoons, floods and the worst locust plague in thirty years have left India facing a food crisis. In addition, the Mumbai area has received very little precipitation this year, and the actual water storage can only sustain the entire Mumbai for another 42 days. Drought and water shortage will make it more difficult to control the epidemic.
The IMF (International Monetary Fund) recently predicted that among major economies, India will be the country with the largest economic decline this year. The Center for Monitoring the Indian Economy said on June 25 that currently, hard data such as industrial production, business activity and new orders, consumer confidence index, and unemployment rate in India are suffering heavy losses, and the service industry and manufacturing activity index have also suffered a setback. Incredible drop. A lot of international capital is also accelerating its flight from India.
You can think about it, if India wants to divert domestic conflicts, what will it mainly rely on? Foreign traders must pay attention to the risks of cooperating with Indian merchants, especially in the near future, please postpone shipments until the situation becomes clear!
Foreign netizens ridiculed India: “Even your hats with the slogan “Boycott China” are made in China. What the hell are you boycotting?”</p
