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Border clash with India might cost China dominant power status
Opinion, World

Border clash with India might cost China dominant power status

Experts are of the opinion that if other countries also follow India’s ban on 59 Chinese apps, including the popular video-sharing app TikTok, it could seriously set back China’s ambition to replace the US as the world's dominant technological power."Chinese companies can't really be global if they lose out on India," said Rush Doshi, an expert on Chinese strategy at the Brookings Institution. "And if India can do this, then other countries can do it too.”In July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made comments that the United States was considering a ban on TikTok and other Chinese social-media apps. Australia is also pondering a TikTok ban.The damage may not be limited to India. The Indian ban could have a "cascading effect," says Adam Segal, an expert on Chinese technology firms at the Cou
Xi Jinping laughed off threats of economic retaliation for Ladakh, now TikTok faces $6 bn loss: US strategist
Politics

Xi Jinping laughed off threats of economic retaliation for Ladakh, now TikTok faces $6 bn loss: US strategist

According to reports, TikTok's mother company, China-based ByteDance, could face a loss of $6 Billion following Indian government's decision to ban 59 Chinese apps including hugely popular TikTok.As per China’s Caixinglobal.com, the amount is likely more than the combined losses for all the other Chinese apps banned by India.Following the reports, U.S. Strategist and Military Historian Edward N Luttwak in a social media post called out the naiveté of Chinese President Xi Jinping for thinking there will be no economic retaliation from India for its intrusion into the Indian Territory in Ladakh.“In Beijing, Xi Jinping's minions laughed off threats of economic retaliation for the Ladakh attack: "India is very poor, who cares?" Yesterday the owner of Tik Tok the most profitable of the 58 Chine