[deanhills]

Chinese companies (notice how i didn’t say China, but rather chinese companies because of the generalization nonsense I explained above)

Great point. It's a global Chinese phenomenon.

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.

True. However it looks like the apps will be banned through instructions to the ISPs and maybe even through Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store:

How will the ban be enforced?
The notification is expected to be followed by instructions to Internet service providers to block these apps. Users are likely to soon see a message saying access to the apps has been restricted on the request of the government.

However, while this will impact apps like TikTok and UC News that need a live feed to serve any purpose, users might still be able to continue using apps that don’t need an active Internet connection to be used. But further downloads of these apps, like CamScanner, are likely to be blocked on Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explai...d-6482150/