Bloggers and tourists in Hong Kong have resorted to the use of the Chinese app Xiaohongshu, known in English as Rednote. Kent Wong, a 46-year-old Hong Kong influencer, has amassed over 170,000 followers on Xiaohongshu.

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TikTok users are looking for a new platform before the upcoming January 19 deadline Does anybody remember the period of chaos after Elon Musk bought Twitter, rebranded it to X, and ‘bird app refugees’ flooded to other text-based platforms like Bluesky,

TikTok will become impossible to access via an American internet connection. It probably will remain possible to access from an American location, though. The rub is a virtual private network, which sets up an encrypted tunnel for internet browsing and can run it through practically any country.

As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media app in China.

The app, also known as Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book in China, has seen a surge of new US users at a time of heightened geopolitical tension between the two world powers

TikTok refugees flocked to Chinese platform Xiaohongshu on Monday, where users greeted them with offers of Mandarin lessons and jokes about spying.

From Li Ka-shing giving free Disneyland tickets to Hong Kong helpers to RedNote’s US challenges, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

With TikTok's days in the U.S. likely numbered, many American users are moving to another Chinese social media app: RedNote, a heavily censored platform similar to Instagram. Here's what to know.

RedNote is attracting users of another Chinese short video app, TikTok, in the US who fear a ban. See our 9-step guide to opening an account.

The arrival of American users on RedNote has brought instant online connection between Americans and Chinese even as academic and other exchanges have dampened.