By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Users of the Chinese social media app RedNote welcomed "TikTok refugees" from the United States with selfies and messages on Wednesday, as Beijing said it encouraged stronger cultural ties with other countries in response to the sudden influx.

With a TikTok ban set to go into effect in the U.S. on Sunday, social media users in the U.S. are migrating to Xiaohongshu, also known as ‘REDnote.’

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese social media app RedNote has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a likely imminent ban on the short video app in the United States.

TikTok users fleeing the ByteDance-owned social platform ahead of a crucial Supreme Court decision on its future sent a rival Chinese app to the top of Apple's charts in the US on Monday. While the exact number of downloads is unknown,

Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, has attracted a flurry of self-called ‘TikTok refugees’ who are refusing to join Meta. View on euronews

With TikTok facing an imminent shutdown in the United States, American content creators have taken flight — to another Chinese social media app. Xiaohongshu, known as Red Note in English, surged to the top of the Apple App Store downloads on Monday,