Indian intelligence agencies want banned the 52 Chinese applications in india/52 Chinese app ban

On 17 June, indian intelligence agencies allegedly asked the indian government Narendra Modi to block or issue advisories against the use of 52 mobile applications that are linked to china. Officials were quoted as saying that agencies are concerned that these apps extract huge amounts of data from Indian users. 

There is no official word yet on whether the government will take action on it or not, but this decision can be a tricky one as this list includes some apps that are wildly popular and often used in india. Some of these applications, such as tik tok , SHAREIT, Likee, Hello and etc. 

Tik tok 

Already due to tensions at the borders, india has started harming active Chinese companies. On june 17 Chinese smartphone brand oppo canceled the launch of a device in india.

Here are the application that indian intelligence agencies want - 

1. Tik tok 
2. Likee
3. Club factory 
4. Beauty plus 
5. Zoom 
6. Vigo video 
7. Vault-hide 
8. Bigo live 
9. Weibo
10. We chat
11. SHAREIT 
12. UC news 
13. UC Browser 
14. Xender
15. Helo
16. Kwai
17. Romwe 
18. Snein
19. News Dog 
20. Photo wonder
21. APUS Browser 
22. Viva video - Qu video Inc
23. CM Browser 
24. Virus cleaner (Hi security lab) 
25. Mi community 
26. DU recorder 
27. You cam makeup
28. Mi store 
29. 360 security 
30. DU Battery saver
31. DU Browser 
32. DU cleaner 
33. DU privacy 
34. Clean Master - cheetah 
35. Cacheclear DU apps studio 
36. Baidu translate 
37. Baidu map 
38. Wonder camera 
39. ES file Explorer 
40. QQ international 
41. QQ launcher 
42. QQ security centre 
43. QQ player 
44. QQ Music 
45. QQ mail 
46. QQ news feed 
47. We sync 
48. Selfie city 
49. Clash of kings 
50. Mail master 
51. Mi video call - xiomi 
52. Parallel space 

The famous apps for 100 millions downlonder - 

1. Tik tok 
2. Likee 
3. Club factory 
4. Beauty plus 
5. Zoom
6. Vigo video 
7. Bigo live 
8. We chat 
9. SHAREIT 
10. UC news 
11. UC Browser 
12. Xender 
13. Helo 
14. Kwai 
15. SHEIN 
16. You cam 
17. 360 security 
18. Mi video call - xiaomi 
19. Parallel space 

The most popular apps - 

1. Tik tok 
2. Likee 
3. SHAREIT 
4. UC Browser 

The list of apps include two file-sharing tools, SHAREIT and Xender. In January 2019, SHAREIT become the third most downloaded app in india after whatsapp and Facebook. The lenovo-owned app has over 400M users in India, of which 200M are MAUs. 

Indian people have used about half a dozem Chinese video-sharing apps over the years. The most popular of which is tik tok, which has more than 120M monthly active users or MAUs. Other popular Chinese video-sharing apps included Helo, which has more than 50M MAUs in India, and Bigo live with over 22M MAUs in the country.