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[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You keep on coping there little buddy. What's happening is that regular people from both countries are now talking directly to each other, and finding out what life is actually like.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Uhhh, not exactly regular people. From what I've seen from the Rednote, at least my feed is wealthy upper-middle or upper class, while the Americans are from low to middle class.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

not what I see in my feed, might depend on the interests you picked and whom you followed, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

That’s because via GDP those two are at the same level even though they are different levels in their own country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what was preventing them from doing it before?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lack of will on the part of Americans to engage on Chinese platforms like Xiaohongshu. The looming TikTok ban is what pushed people over the edge.