Chinese app TikTok cuts jobs in India following ban
Associated PressNEW DELHI — Popular short-video Chinese app TikTok is cutting its workforce in India after hundreds of millions of its users dropped it to comply with a government ban on dozens of Chinese apps amid a military standoff between the two countries. China’s government on Thursday criticized Indian moves to ban Baidu, TikTok and other popular Chinese apps and appealed to New Delhi to get economic ties “back on track.” “China opposes any discriminatory restrictive measures against Chinese companies,” said a Commerce Ministry spokesman, Gao Feng. Gao didn’t address Indian complaints that Chinese apps might be a security threat but said Beijing requires its companies to abide by local laws abroad. Beijing hopes New Delhi can “provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory business environment” for Chinese companies “so that China-India bilateral economic and trade cooperation can be back on track as soon as possible,” Gao said.