This list explores some of the most popular apps from China and compares them to their closest Western equivalents. Sometimes better, sometimes not, but always interesting. Whether it's shopping, ...

Lemon8, a photo-sharing app by Bytedance, and RedNote, a Shanghai-based content-sharing platform, have seen a surge in popularity in the U.S. as "TikTok refugees" migrate to alternative platforms ...

In the days before a ban on the popular app TikTok is set to take effect in the United States, other Chinese social media platforms have seen a spike in downloads among American users. But whether any ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- In the past few weeks, two Chinese apps, DeepSeek and RedNote, have skyrocketed to the top of app store charts, finding their way onto millions of U.S. smartphones. However, ...

The Chinese e-commerce marketplace app DHgate, which is now the No. 2 free iPhone app in the U.S., isn’t the only one that’s oddly benefiting from President Trump’s tariffs on U.S. imports from China.

As the clock ticks down on TikTok's potentially final days in the U.S., scores of Americans are flocking to a surprising alternative: a popular Chinese social media platform called Xiaohongshu, or ...

HONG KONG — As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, U.S. TikTok users are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. Some of the “TikTok refugees, ...

In the past few weeks, two Chinese apps, DeepSeek and RedNote, have skyrocketed to the top of app store charts, finding their way onto millions of U.S. smartphones. However, security experts are now ...

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