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Americans and Chinese share jokes on 'alternative TikTok' as US ban looms
Many Chinese users on RedNote say it is the first time they have been able to speak directly to Americans online.
It's all unfolding on a popular Chinese social media app called RedNote, or Xiaohongshu (literally translates as Little Red Book), which doesn't have the usual internet firewall that separates China from the rest of the world. Americans now find themselves in direct contact with 300 million Mandarin speakers in China and elsewhere – while in the real world, Beijing is bracing for a tumultuous Trump presidency that could strain its fragile ties with Washington. The app has faced accusations that user data is ending up in the hands of the Chinese government - because of a Beijing law that requires local companies to "support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work".
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