{"id":109416,"date":"2020-07-01T23:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/india-tiktok-ban-threatens-chinas-rise-as-global-tech-power"},"modified":"2020-07-01T23:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:23:28","slug":"india-tiktok-ban-threatens-chinas-rise-as-global-tech-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/india-tiktok-ban-threatens-chinas-rise-as-global-tech-power","title":{"rendered":"India TikTok Ban Threatens China\u2019s Rise as Global Tech Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/india-tiktok-ban-threatens-chinas-rise-as-global-tech-power2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s unprecedented decision to ban 59 of China\u2019s largest apps is a warning to the country\u2019s tech giants, who for years thrived behind a government-imposed Great Firewall that kept out many of America\u2019s best-known internet names. If India finds a way to carry out that threat, it may present a model for other countries from Europe to Southeast Asia that seek to curtail the pervasiveness of apps like ByteDance Ltd.\u2019s TikTok while safeguarding their citizens\u2019 valuable data.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>China over the past decade built an alternate online reality where Google and Facebook barely exist. Now its own tech corporations, from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd., are getting a taste of what a shutout feels like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s unprecedented decision to ban 59 of China\u2019s largest apps is a warning to the country\u2019s tech giants, who for years thrived behind a government-imposed Great Firewall that kept out many of America\u2019s best-known internet names. If India finds a way to carry out that threat, it may present a model for other countries from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}