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A lot of Chinese people do use twitter and youtube, the reason you don't see them is because its all in Chinese characters so unless you deliberately type it in the search bar you would very rarely see recommendations from say the youtube algorithm that will lead you there.

I follow some pretty popular vlogs of village life in China with shit ton of subscribers. I can only assume VPN usage in China is a lot more common than most people think.

Instagram has been predicated as the backup plan for people using TikTok in the event it gets banned.

Widespread. China and Iran and Pakistan bans are not affecting Brazil, Europe or Canada. How is Trump going to stop ubiquitous VPN usage from the USA without the great firewall of China?

He just needs to take it off app stores.

You can still access tik tok via its website. Though uploading videos may be much more difficult

Which he can't unless apple and google opt to do so. If so he should have made an plea to them instead of pretending he could ban it by fiat.