
Chinese social media is censored, just in different ways and to different extents. For instance, you can not promote degeneracy, such as drug use, incel culture, they don't care if you're gay or trans, it's just not polite to talk about etc. Things the Chinese government considers divisive to their own population etc. Is censored. And from what my Chinese friends on xiǎohóngshū have told me and I'll quote "this(xioahungshu) is not meant to be an app for political discourse, this app is a lifestyle app catering to young women primarily, it's one of the more censored apps" The Chinese people have a strong hatred of Israel, to them and if you read the comments on xiǎohóngshū you'll see this sentiment a lot "Israel are worse than the Japanese" "what Israel are doing to the Palestinians is what China faced under Japanese imperialism" Many people mention their own grandparents and the stories they tell about Japanese imperialism whenever Israel is brought up. As for Japan there's an echo chamber of "blood debt" "pay for the sins of their ancestors" "never forget national humiliation" rhetoric whenever Japan is brought up. But the Chinese love Americans and American culture surprisingly. The only anti USA stuff you see on xioahungshu comes from American citizens themselves. A lot never went back to tiktok when it was reinstated. And using tiktok I remember why