Chinese application TikTok cuts jobs in India subsequent ban
NEW DELHI (AP) — Well-known small-online video Chinese app TikTok is reducing its workforce in India after hundreds of millions of its customers dropped it to comply with a authorities ban on dozens of Chinese applications amid a armed service standoff among the two nations.

“Given the lack of suggestions from the authorities about how to resolve this problem in the subsequent seven months, it is with deep unhappiness that we have made the decision to reduce our workforce in India,” a TikTok statement claimed Wednesday.
The assertion did not give details, but media reports say the organization has a lot more than 2,000 personnel in India. It expressed the hope it will get a probability to relaunch TikTok in India to assist hundreds of tens of millions of customers, artists, storytellers, educators and performers.
The Indian govt announced a ban on 59 Chinese applications, like TikTok, which is operated by Chinese internet company Bytedance, in June as its relations with China deteriorated. It reported the applications had been prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India.
China claims New Delhi has been making use of national stability as an excuse to prohibit Chinese cellular apps.
China’s authorities on Thursday criticized Indian moves to ban Baidu, TikTok and other popular Chinese apps and appealed to New Delhi to get economic ties “back on track.”
“China opposes any discriminatory restrictive actions towards Chinese organizations,” stated a Commerce Ministry spokesman, Gao Feng.
Gao did not address Indian issues that Chinese apps might be a stability threat but said Beijing requires its companies to abide by community regulations overseas.
“The difficult-gained advancement of China-India economic and trade cooperation is in the popular passions of the two peoples,” Gao said.
Beijing hopes New Delhi can “provide an open, good and non-discriminatory enterprise environment” for Chinese businesses “so that China-India bilateral economic and trade cooperation can be back on monitor as before long as achievable,” Gao reported.
Chinese-owned apps have identified a rapid-increasing current market in India, with some companies creating India-particular applications that have exploded in reputation.
Primary Minister Narendra Modi’s govt has utilised the country’s 500 million internet users — 2nd only to China — as a lure to get tech giants including Twitter to localize Indians’ data.
