A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service.

Ahead of the possible TikTok ban, "TikTok refugees" are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, or Red Note, with strange and fascinating consequences.

The social media app, Xiaohongshu, is lifestyle based and has features like live-streaming, shopping, and similarly to TikTok, users have the facility to upload short videos, images, and messages.

Xiaohongshu’s biggest shareholders are in talks to sell shares in the Chinese Instagram-like service at a valuation of at least $20 billion, drawing interest from Tencent Holdings Ltd. and other big names as a potential TikTok US ban approaches.

(Reuters) -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.

Chinese-owned TikTok is set to be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, 2025, and another Chinese-owned app is welcoming American "TikTok refugees."

On the heels of TikTok's looming shutdown on January 19 over its ownership in the U.S. (unless the Supreme Court intervenes), it looks like another American users are flocking to a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu as people become less optimistic that TikTok can overturn U.

People are going to Xiaohongshu a.k.a. RedNote, a Chinese social app, in the midst of TikTok's impending ban. Here's what you should know about it.

With a TikTok ban set to go into effect in the U.S. on Sunday, social media users in the U.S. are migrating to Xiaohongshu, also known as ‘REDnote.’

Chinese lifestyle sharing platform Xiaohongshu (also referred as RedNote) unexpectedly climbed to the top of the US Apple

The app that Americans are flocking to as a TikTok alternative is Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, which translates to “Little Red Book.” This name carries significant historical weight, as it alludes to Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book, a mandatory collection of his quotes and philosophies that symbolized the Cultural Revolution in China.

Chinese social apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 have soared to the top two spots on Apple's iPhone charts ahead of the U.S.'s impending TikTok ban.