It’s an unintentionally funny and, in a way, accidental soft power victory for China: As TikTok will be banned in the US, thousands of American users of the short video app have decided to switch to entirely Chinese platforms in a collective gesture of protest. Along the lines of: „If the US government is worried that China could access our data, we might as well hand it over directly,“ as one of the self-declared „TikTok refugees“ put it.