Why TikTok, RedNote and Tencent are Dangerous
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
TikTok may soon be banned in the United States due to its China ties, but some users are now migrating to a platform even more strongly linked to China’s communist regime. The case with TikTok is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, which is weighing the constitutionality of banning the video app unless its China-based owner, ByteDance, sells it off. It appears the ban is likely to be upheld, and some TikTok users have been jumping to another platform that’s even more Chinese—RedNote. Technically, the name is Xiaohongshu, which is Mandarin for “Little Red Book”—as in the teachings of former CCP leader Mao Zedong.
In other news, TikTok may be just the first of many such companies that could be forced to either sell or get banned in the United States. The U.S. Department of Defense recently listed Tencent as a Chinese military company, and this could also have broad implications for tech and entertainment. Tencent owns the messaging app WeChat and has also been buying up large swaths of companies in the video game market—including many of the most popular games currently available. With the new designation, and with the passage of some recent U.S. laws, Tencent could soon go the way of TikTok.
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| 0:00.0 | TikTok may soon be banned in the United States over its China ties, |
| 0:04.0 | and some users are now migrating to an app that is even closer to the CCP system. |
| 0:09.0 | It's called Red Note, and the actual name of that literally translates to Little Red Book. |
| 0:15.0 | And related to this, according to documents related to lawsuits obtained by the daily caller, TikTok was requiring an |
| 0:23.4 | American executive to sign an oath supporting China's socialist system in national interests. |
| 0:31.3 | And meanwhile, look, the U.S. Department of Defense has designated 10 cent as a Chinese military company. And this could have huge implications |
| 0:41.5 | for tech and entertainment because Tencent owns huge swaths of the entertainment industry, |
| 0:46.8 | especially with video games. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, |
| 0:51.6 | and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 1:02.6 | Now look, TikTok may soon be banned in the United States. It's over Chinese ties with the parent companies and how this may be influencing the platforms |
| 1:08.0 | and the algorithms and how it may be feeding harmful content to your kids, |
| 1:13.2 | maybe intentionally. And some users, because of this, because it may be banned, they're moving |
| 1:19.2 | to an even more CCP-type platform. The case with TikTok right now is in the hands of the Supreme |
| 1:25.7 | Court. It's now weighing the constitutionality |
| 1:28.6 | of banning TikTok unless its China-based owner, Bite Dance, sells it off. And as of now, it appears |
| 1:35.2 | the ban is likely going to go through. Some TikTok users facing this, they've been instead jumping |
| 1:40.9 | over to Red Note, also more officially called Little Red Book. |
| 1:46.2 | The Chinese name is Xiaohong Shu. The actual translation of that is Little Red Book, as in the |
| 1:53.5 | teachings of former CCP leader Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong, of course, being one of the main |
| 1:59.8 | founders of the Chinese Communist Party, |
| 2:01.8 | the one who brought communism to China. And if you're in China, if you're in the Communist Party, |
| 2:08.4 | you need to read the teachings of Mao like a religious text. You have to do study sessions, |
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