Xiaohongshu's "TikTok Refugees," with Ivy Yang and David Fishman
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studying China in the absence of access, which will run across the next few months. I was originally going to skip putting out the regular podcast this week as I'm about to start my work that I do each year at the World Economic Forum, but the stranger than fiction mass migration of mostly American TikTok users to Chinese app Xiahongshu is just a topic that demands an episode, so even though I had to put this together in a hurry, I lucked out by getting well, the two individuals who would have been my top picks to talk about what we're going to talk about anyway. So I am mighty pleased about this. It today is Sunday afternoon, uh, here in in Switzerland, January 19th,
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