India banned TikTok a while back but their trade with China just keeps growing - https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/chinas-share-in-indi

India banned TikTok a while back but their trade with China just keeps growing - https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/chinas-share-in-indias-industrial-goods-imports-jump-to-30-from-21-in-last-15-years-gtri/109679285 https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/c... TikTok ban is more about the Attention Wars. Politicians in Democracies world over have walked into a trap by falling in love with Social Media. How do you get noticed, in the absurd reality created by social media, where everyone is given a mic hooked up to the same sound system? No one can win in this game. Its an arms race to nowhere. Instead of recognizing that and creating a coordination mechanism for who gets the mic, politicians are currently doing two things - 1. Buying more Ads (just check the ever growing ad spends by political parties world over) - this basically means Democracy is for sale to the largest ad buyers 2. Arm twisting the platforms