Southern dreams

5 August 2020 By Robyn Mak Follow @mak_robyn

As Washington and New Delhi block Chinese apps, fast-growing markets like Indonesia and Vietnam have gained importance for mainland technology firms. Early movers like Alibaba found limited traction in the region, but the next wave is nimbler, and may enjoy more success.

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U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 31 that he planned to ban short-form video app TikTok, owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. “Chinese software companies doing business in the United States, whether it’s TikTok or WeChat – there are countless more – as Peter Navarro said, are feeding data directly to the Chinese Communist Party, their national security apparatus,” U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in an Aug. 2 television interview.

India on June 29 announced it would ban 59, mostly Chinese, apps in “a targeted move to ensure the safety and sovereignty of Indian cyberspace.”

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