Shame they didn’t reveal what he ordered.
Why did India ban it?
Anti-China posturing by rightwing BJP PM Modi.
It’s a little more than posturing, India and China have been at odds for a while. They’re frequent competitors for resources on the open market, which China has a better position in. China has also antagonized India over their borders in the Himalayas in Kashmir, as well as encroached on Nepal’s borders (which India views as a necessary buffer state and an in-kind extension of Indian territory).
Modi’s for sure been causing a lot of anti-democratic ruckus domestically, but his anti-China stance is pretty valid.
I am from India. BJP’s position is a literal dead cat strategy, considering how he never spoke on the Galwan Valley territory issue and instead said through ANI briefing said that all is okay. He is a paper tiger, and in response to that incident, he banned 59 Chinese apps/e-commerce stores from India, which is pathetic if being nice about it. The whole world comfortably uses Tiktok, AliExpress, Taobao et al except for India.
His anti-China “stance” holds as much weight as Trump’s did in USA, when his own clothing lines were all manufactured in China. BJP is beyond just anti-democratic, they love majoritarian Hindutva extremism.
The border conflicts have a history that cannot just be reduced to “China encroachment”. It goes all the way back to territory lines drawn by Britishers for India, Nepal and China.
TheOnion?
