Tiktok Chaos Shows Popular Opposition to China-based Bans

Americans have shown that they won’t take national security threats at face value. They want the details. Lawmakers reportedly gathered for a top-secret briefing on the risks posed by TikTok before voting in favor of the bill back in March. At the time, the protestors outside Capitol Hill who opposed the ban were not made privy to its findings.

Confidentiality has consequences. We witnessed this week that Americans are willing to directly snub lawmakers’ China threat rhetoric by migrating from the U.S.-based and managed TikTok to the entirely Chinese-run lifestyle app, Xiaohongshu (known in the U.S. as “Red Note”).

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