China’s internet companies and their hard-working, resourceful professionals make world-class products, in spite of censorship and malign neglect by Beijing.

Shanghai-based Xiaohongshu, or RedNote as it is known in English, is a Chinese social media platform growing in popularity as an alternative to TikTok, but with the same security risks.

To say the rollout of the U.S.’s TikTok ban has been a mess would be an understatement. After years of back and forth in Washington, the Chinese-owned vid