China: All the Ways 'Super-Sticky' WeChat Is Watching

WeChat, the brainchild of Tencent—one of China's big three tech giants—is often referred to in the West as a social media app, something equivalent to Facebook or WhatsApp, but that's to undersell it. WeChat has over 1 billion active users. In China, people don't refer to it as a social media platform but rather as a social ecosystem.