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@noahthewindowsguy  The war may have been a factor, but in essence the banning of the apps has more to do with protecting users against the aggressive and unscrupulous mining of data by China through the apps.   The apps have been used to gather information about the individuals  including soldiers using the apps.   This is not the first time it has happened either and isn't restricted to India.  The big drama about Huawei in the US is along the same lines.  

This is the reason that the apps got banned:

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53232486

I do agree with your point.

Chinese companies (notice how i didn’t say China, but rather chinese companies because of the generalization nonsense I explained above) have a reputation of collecting all sorts of data from their users the second you start using their products... which is honestly a major privacy issue... and if you look into the information they collect, you’d honestly be creeped out. Collecting information is only acceptable up to a certain level (where the end user is made aware of what’s being collected, combined with the data being collected being minimal and only used to improve the product)... which is something many chinese companies aren’t too bothered about. They tend to collect any sort of data they could possibly get their hands on without your knowledge... it’s absolutely insane!

This for sure has to do with some chinese companies, huawei as an example, offering products that tend to be “too cheap to be true”... and that’s even with taking the cheaper labor costs in china into account... many people (myself included) believe that the money they make selling your data is significantly more than then money they’re losing by offering cheaper devices... and the sad part is people fall for it. 

I honestly don’t blame the Indian government for banning said apps if that’s the reason why they’re doing so. However, banning the apps is only a small part of the solution. They’ve still got the devices themselves (such as huawei phones) being used in the country... they still have other non-chinese devices using Huawei internals, so on. 

So basically they haven’t solved the problem with banning the apps... they only made their own people face the consequences of said actions.