Phone Displays Xiaohongshu App Logo

RedNote Censorship Concerns Emerge As TikTok Users Flock to Chinese App

As self-described “TikTok refugees” pour onto the Chinese social media app RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, some foreign netizens are already running up against the country’s extensive censorship apparatus. Newsweek reached out to Xiaohongshu with a request for comment via a general contact email address. Why It Matters TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has until Sunday…

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Blinken Brushes Off Trump Threats On Panama Canal

Blinken Brushes Off Trump Threats On Panama Canal

Washington: Outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday dismissed as bluster President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to seize the Panama Canal, instead anticipating a more traditional strategy of diversifying supply chains. “On the Panama Canal, we have a treaty, we have a settled policy of many years, and that’s not going to change,” Blinken…

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