Context

Xiaohongshu One Year Ban Begin:

Dec 5, 2025, under the leadership of Lai Ching Te, his administration has decreed that all Taiwanese ISPs shall commence blocking Xiaohongshu (XHS) or RedBook for one year.

It is estimated that over 3 million Taiwanese users will be affected by this ban

Official Rationale for the Ban:

Authorities have claimed that XHS App meets none of Taiwan's 15 cybersecurity standards (no information on these standard)

In the past year, fraud cases on XHS has numbered over a staggering number of 1700 and causing 7.9 million USD in financial losses in one year.

(Monthly this is around 142 fraud cases per month and USD 650K of losses per month on the XHS platform)

Taiwan Fraud Statistics:

According to the DPP led government, the reason why XHS is banned whereas other platforms are not banned is because these other platforms are obeying Taiwanese laws and making efforts to reduce fraud whereas XHS is not.

However the numbers do not match this logic and reasoning.

According to Fraudbuster, a Taiwanese government backed dashboard on fraud statistics in Taiwan, in the past 30 days alone there were over 78,000 recorded cases of fraud with the following following Platform breakdown:

Facebook accounted for 51,946 fraud cases

Threads accounted for 10,338 fraud cases

Instagram accounted for 7,204 fraud cases

Meta Advertising accounted for 5,336 frad cases

Meta Messaging accounted for 4,565 fraud cases

LINE accounted for 977 fraud cases

Google accounted for 290 fraud case

TikTok accounted for 285 cases

(Based on previous calculations, XHS accounts for an implied 142 monthly fraud cases and 142/780000 cases would approximately be 0.2% of monthly fraud cases)

According to another Taiwanese government dashboard for fraud, 165Dashboard, estimates that the monthly financial loss is around 6 billion NTD or 191m USD per month. (XHS calculated implied financial loss per month was 0.65m USD, 0.65/191 would be approximately 0.3% of Financial losses)

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/taiwan-ban-chinas-xiaohongshu-app-095053595.html