Ahead of the suspension of TikTok services in the United States, a Chinese app called "Red Note" has emerged as the number one download list.
Chinese state media are touting the U.S. ban on TikTok as an expression of discontent.
This is Beijing correspondent Kang Jeong-gyu.
[Reporter] It's Xiao Hongsu (small 紅 book) who goes by '∀'s Chinese version of Instagram'.
The app, called "Red Note" in English, has recently been flooded with American subscribers.More than 100,000 people have participated in the chat room named
'TikTok Refugee' to communicate in English and Chinese.
['Red Note' American Subscriber: Hello, we're new. American from TikTok.]
["Red Note" Chinese User: Hello, TikTok Refugees! Welcome to Red Note.]
In fact, Red Note has recently emerged as the No. 1 app store in the U.S. as the number of downloads has soared by more than 200%.
On the 19th local time, as TikTok service in the United States was about to be suspended, we went to find an alternative app.
Some view the "TikTok Ban Act" with national security as an act of resistance by young Americans who laugh at it.
['Red Note' American Subscriber: I can't stand to create fear. China is stealing our data? Who cares?]
Chinese state media have also used it for propaganda, saying that complaints about the U.S. policy of suppressing TikTok have erupted.
[Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Zakun: What I want to reiterate is that it is an individual's choice to use which social media.]There was also a brief theory that TikTok's U.S. business rights were transferred to Musk, who was '∀'
{Trump's second-term heavyweight', but China denied it.
170 million TikTok users in the U.S.,
Trump fiddles with invoking executive order to suspend TikTok ban shortly after taking office.
There is also a bone-chilling joke that the red note, reminiscent of the "Mao Zedong Eo-rok" during the Cultural Revolution, has become an icon of freedom to use apps in the United States.
I'm Kang Jeong-gyu from Beijing.
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