American “TikTok refugees” have immigrated on popular Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, “Little Red Book”.
Amid TikTok’s likely closure in the US within days, some of its American users have migrated to the Chinese Instagram-like social media app.
The attempt by the US government to shield Americans from Chinese influence is having the opposite effect – it is driving Chinese and American social media users closer.
The US federal law requires ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, to take the popular short-video app off the shelves from 19 January unless it sells the app to a non-Chinese company. ByteDance has said it will not do so.
There are about 170 million people using TikTok in the US.
Source: The Straits Times
