• Three Cheers for Xi Jinping! Wait, Make That a Billion

    At China’s Communist Party congress, a videogame company released a free game in which users ‘clap’ for the president; multitudes obliged

    BEIJING—Give it up for President Xi Jinping!

    It’s so easy to do. Just vigorously tap on your smartphone screen to “clap” for him.

    That’s the latest way Chinese are showing support for their leader, affectionately nicknamed “Xi Dada,” and at the same time participating in the emergence of Mr. Xi as the kind of preeminent leader China hasn’t...

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