News Analysis India sent a special Valentine’s Day gift to China on Feb. 14. Citing national security reasons, New Delhi banned 54 apps linked to China. These included one from Singapore called “Free Fire,” whose company, the gaming giant Sea, investors punished by wiping out $16 billion of its value. Since 2020, after the Chinese military’s border incursions in the Himalayas, India has banned a total of 321 China-linked apps, including TikTok, WeChat, and Weibo. Other countries should do the same. The social media app TikTok, for example, is experiencing explosive growth globally due to its uncanny ability to predict user interests and short-form video format. However, it perhaps not coincidentally has major security and privacy problems, and is owned by ByteDance, which is based in Beijing. According to a report by Sravasti Dasgupta in The Independent, the apps India most recently banned include the likes of Beauty Camera: Sweet …