“Refugees from TikTok” arrive in Xiaohongshu, Beijing in the face of the wave of American Internet users

Refugees from TikTok arrive in Xiaohongshu Beijing in the face

The “TikTok refugees”, these Americans who, faced with the possible ban on the application in the United States this Sunday, are migrating to another Chinese application: RedNote, or Xiaohongshu in Chinese (literally, “the little red book”) . This platform, a sort of mix of Instagram and Pinterest popular with Chinese urban youth, gives rise to astonishing exchanges between Americans and Chinese. Discussions that pose a challenge to Beijing’s censorship, accustomed to exercising firm control over social networks.

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