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by jackjeff 1977 days ago
When Donald Trump threatened to block WeChat in the US expats and Chinese people alike started to download Signal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-bans-wechat-some...

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That's about Chinese people in the US. The headline explicitly says "people in China".

Note that even for Chinese people in the US (myself included), Signal was in my experience a pretty minor choice when Trump was trying to ban WeChat. Whatsapp, Line, etc were among the favorite alternatives.