July 4, 2020

India's move to deter power equipment imports from China is nothing but a fresh instance of the South Asian economy's lapsing into self-damaging antagonism against its major trading partner amid simmering border tensions, Chinese experts said on Saturday.

India will not allow power equipment imports from China amid the border standoff, the nation's power minister R K Singh announced Friday during a virtual press conference, according to Indian news agency Press Trust of India (PTI).

Singh also cited malware concerns. "There could be malware or trojan horse in those (imports from China) which they can activate remotely (to cripple our power systems)," read the PT report. 

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