A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service.

January, a wave of U.S. users migrated to China’s platform Xiaohongshu due to the TikTok ban, engaging in an unexpected “cost-of-living comparison” with Chinese users. Despite higher wages, many Americans found their living expenses made life harder than in China.

IC. I'm so excited that the world is changing and getting a lot smaller. It started with US "TikTok refugees" joining Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media networ

The mingling of so-called "TikTok refugees" with Chinese users on the PRC-based social network Xiaohongshu spawned a range of reactions, from some Chinese users’ excitement at the unexpected opening of a window in the Great Firewall,

Chinese-owned TikTok is set to be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, 2025, and another Chinese-owned app is welcoming American "TikTok refugees."

TikTok has resumed operations in the US following a shutdown overnight on Saturday, after the incoming US president Donald Trump pledged to “save TikTok” by delaying the proposed ban.

Xiaohongshu’s biggest shareholders are in talks to sell shares in the Chinese Instagram-like service at a valuation of at least $20 billion, drawing interest from Tencent Holdings Ltd. and other big names as a potential TikTok US ban approaches.

China tensions have precipitated a decade-long decline in bilateral people-to-people exchanges. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The app that Americans are flocking to as a TikTok alternative is Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, which translates to “Little Red Book.” This name carries significant historical weight, as it alludes to Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book, a mandatory collection of his quotes and philosophies that symbolized the Cultural Revolution in China.

A heartwarming story of cross-border friendship has captured the hearts of thousands on the popular social platform Xiaohongshu, known as the Red Note app. Catharina, an American TikTok refugee, posted a video on the platform in search of Simon ...

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Here's what you need to know about Xiaohongshu. It is a lifestyle social media app which allows users to post short videos, photos and texts, and it also includes functions like live-streaming and ...