US TikTok refugees flee to the Chinese app Xiaohongshu
When U.S. authorities decided to ban the video app TikTok, citing national security concerns, they probably did not imagine that thousands of users would seek refuge in another Chinese platform — Xiaohongshu, which in Mandarin means “little red book.” Virtually unknown outside China until mid-January, the app has reached the top of the Apple Store’s download chart in the U.S. The move is a kind of revenge on the part of many American content creators, outraged at the foreseeable imminent closure of TikTok on U.S. soil. The U.S. Supreme Court must rule on whether to uphold the law stipulating that the crown jewel of the Chinese technology company ByteDance must disassociate itself from its parent company by January 19, or cease to operate in the country.
