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As the importance of video grows, the importance of text, long the de facto means of online communication, is in decline. Photo: VCG The founder of China’s most popular app delivered a clear message in his annual speech for this year. On Jan. 19, Allen Zhang, the founder of WeChat and a senior executive vice president at Tencent Holdings Ltd., said at his annual address that for the next decade, video will be key. “Although it remains to be seen whether human advancement will be epitomized by the written word or video, we can see that personal expression and consumption habits are all shifting toward the latter,” Zhang said. I watched Zhang’s annual WeChat Open Class with interest, then posted a few comments in my WeChat Moments: • “Text was once the realm of the privileged few. Now that videos are everywhere in our society, we might see text once again become a dive
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