As a TikTok ban looms in the United States, young Americans are flocking to the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu as “TikTok refugees” in search of a similar experience. The app has risen to the top spot on the iOS and Google Play stores in the US in recent days as users prepare for TikTok to be banned on national security grounds from Sunday unless Chinese parent company ByteDance divests its ownership.

After the U.S. government threatened to ban TikTok, American users discovered an unlikely haven: Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media app.

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RedNote is often regarded as a localised adaptation of Instagram in China. Its Chinese name Xiaohongshu translates to "Little Red Book" in English, a phrase which traditionally refers to a collection of sayings by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong.

(Yicai) Jan. 21 -- Five major trends characterize the e-commerce landscape of China’s Xiaohongshu, known outside the country as RedNote, a media outlet under Yicai Media Group discovered by delving into the app’s list of the top 100 merchants and 100 most noteworthy brand ambassadors and influencers over the past year.

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The frugal trend that began in China during the economic disruption of the pandemic and deepened amid the crisis in the property market is intensifying as Gen Z shuns government calls to spend, spend,

RedNote, or Xiaohongshu, became the most downloaded iPhone app in the US on Monday.

Instagram has launched a new video editing app called Edits, targeting content creators amid uncertainty around TikTok. Announced by Instagram head Adam Mosseri, the move comes as TikTok faces challenges,

Backers of China's Xiaohongshu are looking to sell a part of their stake to the likes of Tencent , among others, in a deal that could value the TikTok-rival at at least $20 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

Analysts are predicting that a recent surge of Americans flocking to the Chinese social media platform RedNote - also known as Xiaohongshu - could be short-lived, as users soon find its content regulations differ sharply from those on TikTok US.