TikTok Refugees in US Test Xi’s Firewall While Embracing Chinese

President Xi Jinping has touted people exchanges as the foundation of healthy US ties. A flood of TikTok “refugees” to Chinese app Xiaohongshu may test his limit for such unscripted interactions.

After the US Supreme Court signaled it was likely to uphold a law banning the popular TikTok app, some 2 million users flooded onto a platformpreviously little-known overseas between Monday and Wednesday, according to digital marketing agency Hennessey Digital.

Their embrace of another Chinese app represented an act of rebellion: The US government claims TikTok’s origins give it ties to the government in Beijing that endanger national security. ...