IN THE days leading up to a proposed US government ban on the social media platform TikTok, American users have turned to another Chinese-owned app, Xiaohongshu. Read more at The Business Times.

Many TikTok users downloaded and began using RedNote aka Xiaohongshu, after facing the threat of the former platform’s ban in the United States. Here, the users were called “TikTok refugees” by existing Chinese RedNote users, who warmly welcomed them.

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms in the United States, users there are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu - making it the top