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TikTok users migrate to RedNote in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power

By Tom Harper, Lecturer in International Relations, University of East London

The new US president, Donald Trump, has given TikTok a reprieve one day after a law came into effect banning the Chinese-owned app in the US on national security grounds. Trump, who has previously expressed admiration for TikTok, has promised to issue an executive order to suspend the ban’s enforcement for 60 to 90 days. And TikTok has now begun restoring services to its roughly 170 million users in the…

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