News Analysis NEW DELHI—Just as there is a physical world, there’s a virtual world. Gamers and app developers call it the meta sphere, and it daily engages billions of real-time people. Predominantly controlled by Chinese entities, the meta sphere gives the Chinese regime the information needed to control behavior, and a platform for censorship and propaganda. India banned Chinese mobile applications because, according to James Lee, an ex-hedge fund manager who has two decades of experience investing in the gaming industry in the United States and Hong Kong, these apps were feeding into the metadata of the Chinese artificial intelligence system. In June 2020, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the apps  were “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of state and public order.” However, a ban by a single country is not sufficient because the meta sphere is fed by investments that the …