There are indications that, among young people, Taiwan’s decades-old trend towards an ever stronger national identity separate from China might be going into reverse. For Taiwanese social scientists, one of the main causes is TikTok, the controversial Chinese social media app that has amassed more than 1bn monthly active users worldwide.
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