China Used ICQ to Make WeChat Digital Prison
January 17, 2026
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Instagram. GooglePay. WhatsApp. X. Uber. These are services and apps you can hardly imagine your daily life without. And which you won't find on a single smartphone in China. That's because for every dozen apps from the world's biggest tech giants, China has just one answer - WeChat.
What started as a copy of Western messaging apps has over time transformed into a massive mechanism - a super app that permeates every aspect of an ordinary Chinese' life.
Who's behind the world's largest app? Is it true that the most effective way to win a competition is to simply ban the competitors? What is Chinese censorship hiding? The answers to all these questions are in today's video!
Buckle up - it’s going to get interesting.
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