Americans are scrambling to learn Mandarin. Duolingo, the beloved owl that haunts your notifications, has seen a jaw-dropping 216% surge in Americans learning Mandarin.

China issued a 55-article set of guidelines for building a "national unified market" and urged local governments to follow through in implementation. Observers said that the initiative has been in the works for over a decade,

According to their website, Xiaohongshu is “a lifestyle platform for young people…With the mission of ‘Inspire Lives – Sharing and Discovering the Wonders of the World’”. It was founded in Shanghai, China, in 2013. The company claims that as of 2019, it had over 300 million users and 100 million monthly active users.

International rights group Safeguard Defenders released a report titled “China’s mass exodus,” which cited U.N. statistics showing the number of Chinese asylum-seekers overseas has almost reached 1.16 million under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 12-year rule.

A language-learning app reported the number of Mandarin learners tripling as the expected TikTok ban date looms closer in the United States and people download Chinese sister app RedNote

All signs point to TikTok shutting down in the United States on Sunday due to the ban that's set to go into effect after the platform failed to find a new

RedNote, which is known in China as Xiaohongshu, the Mandarin term for “little red book,” is the most downloaded free app on the Apple App Store.

Former Washington Post employee Taylor Lorenz and millions of others have migrated from TikTok to Xiaohongshu, another Chinese-owned app, as

This Chinese social media app has been topping the charts for most downloads, but is it safe, and is it suitable for short-form content creation

The Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the US over national security concerns unless its Chinese parent ByteDance sells it. Without immediate assurances from the Biden administration, the app will go dark on January 19.

RedNote is a foreign-owned app, and experts warn that it could be attacked by the same law that is now banning TikTok.