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That's kinda irrelevant to whether Signal should try to help Chinese users?

Idk. I commented because the title is wrong and misleading.

Totally irrelevant, but it's there, in the headline and it's not true.

They probably tried to say that most of signal users use third party keyboards.

This. Absolutely none of my family and friends in China use Signal. There are a few that uses slack though.

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...

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.