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Who will dethrone Wechat?

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Several Chinese apps are engaged in a quiet, high-stakes battle to become the next WeChat, a mega app that now has 1.1 billion monthly active users, 80% of China’s total population. In the past decade, WeChat has transformed human interaction in China and grown into an ecosystem for innovation, making it virtually the sole super-app most of China can’t live without. The question now is whether anyone can dethrone it.

https://www.protocol.com/china/chinas-next-wechat