China said on Tuesday it was concerned about India's decision to ban Chinese mobile apps such as Bytedance's TikTok and Tencent's WeChat and was making checks to verify the situation.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters during a daily briefing that India has a responsibility to uphold the rights of Chinese businesses.
India on Monday banned 59, mostly Chinese, mobile apps in its strongest move yet targeting China in the online space since a border crisis erupted between the two countries this month.
TikTok has not imparted data on Indian clients to China or other outside governments, it said on Tuesday after New Delhi last night prohibited it alongside 58 different applications with Chinese connections.
"We have been welcome to meet with concerned government partners for a chance to react and submit explanations," said Tik Tok India head Nikhil Gandhi in an announcement.
TikTok "kept on conforming to information protection and security necessities under Indian law" and had not shared any data of clients in India with "any outside government, including the Chinese government". The viral application included: "in the event that we are mentioned to later on we would not do as such."
"TikTok has democratized the web by making it accessible in 14 Indian dialects, with a huge number of clients, specialists, narrators, instructors and entertainers relying upon it for their job, a considerable lot of whom are first time web clients," said the announcement.
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) summoned its capacity under segment 69A of the Information Technology Act boycott the applications and named their use "biased to power and honesty of India, barrier of India, security of state and open request".
TikTok was brought down from Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store on Tuesday morning. The application isn't accessible for downloads on any authority application appropriation stage. In any case, it keeps on working for individuals who have just downloaded and introduced it on their cell phones.
