Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

RedNote, or Xiaohongshu (“Little Red Book” in English, which is a reference to Mao Tse-Tung’s speeches and writings), is a Chinese app that wasn’t available in English until shortly after ...

Chinese-owned video-sharing app RedNote is reportedly considering quarantining American users over concerns they are a poor influence on China’s own young people. Ahead of TikTok being banned an ...

As of this writing, the future of TikTok hangs in the balance, and swaths of “TikTok refugees” are popping over to RedNote. RedNote is China’s version of Instagram with around 300 million users.

Even before the ban briefly went into effect, however, users began to download a Chinese platform called RedNote — the most popular app in the country — to replace the Chinese-owned TikTok ...