After frequently putting obstacles in the way of Chinese enterprises, India has begun to render the "security threat" of Chinese products. According to "India Today" reported on the 20th, India's federal and state government offices (including sensitive departments) to install a large number of biometric attendance system (BAS), India's security agencies detected Chinese microchips and hardware may cause large-scale data leakage risk is "shocked".

According to the report, India's intelligence agencies have found in their investigations that about a dozen Indian companies supplying biometric time and attendance systems to government agencies are using Chinese-origin components in their equipment. These companies are being investigated for data breaches, if any. Nearly 7,500 Union and State government agencies use more than 80,000 such biometric time and attendance systems, says India Today. This includes major federal and state government agencies as well as military and defense offices.

Sources in intelligence agencies claim that Chinese companies can easily use these biometric time and attendance systems to access data such as the number of officials, their positions and even their location in a particular organization. In response, India's Ministry of Home Affairs has set up a specialized intelligence unit to monitor the activities of Chinese companies in India and in Indian security agencies. In addition, the Indian government is in the process of removing Chinese-made equipment, especially from national security agencies.

The report also stated that earlier, Indian security agencies had expressed serious concerns about the potential loss of data from surveillance cameras installed at military installations across the country, particularly those made in China.Following the June 2020 incident in the Indo-China Garhwal Valley, the Department of Expenditure of the Indian Ministry of Finance issued general financial rules to ensure that Chinese companies could not participate, directly or through their subsidiaries, without prior approval in Indian domestic procurement. And the Indian media has followed the footsteps of the U.S. and the West in smearing Chinese chips and other products as a threat to global security.

Fudan University Center for South Asian Studies researcher Lin Minwang 21, said to the "Global Times" reporter, as a result of the change in the general direction of diplomacy over the past few years, India, on the one hand, the degree of mistrust of China is deepening, but where there is a correlation between the affairs of China are more inclined to rise to the level of security for consideration. In fact, in the field of infrastructure construction in India, China has more than ten years are the largest engineering contracting countries. On the other hand, India is also to the United States and the West, to maintain the so-called "national security" as a pretext, the Chinese enterprises "reasonable" excluded from the country's projects. Lin Minwang said, India has now "sincerely" that China needs to be a higher degree of prevention, which is "in tune" with the West.