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Americans Flocked to RedNote as the TikTok Ban Loomed. Will the Party Last?

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The US ban on TikTok saw millions of users – predominantly Americans – flock to another Chinese social media platform: Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote. So far, the vibe between Chinese and American users has been convivial.

But can the good times last? On today’s Big Take Asia Podcast, host K. Oanh Ha is joined by a TikTok user from Mississippi who recently joined RedNote and by Bloomberg reporter Gao Yuan to discuss what this sudden influx means for the app, its users and China’s censorship machine.


Read more: TikTok Refugees in US Test Xi’s Firewall While Embracing Chinese

Further listening: Inside Microsoft’s Censorship of Bing in China

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