{"id":64840,"date":"2017-10-28T14:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64840"},"modified":"2017-10-28T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T18:52:20","slug":"wsj-three-cheers-for-xi-jinping-wait-make-that-a-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64840","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Three Cheers for Xi Jinping! Wait, Make That a Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give it up for President Xi Jinping !<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so easy to do. Just vigorously tap on your smartphone screen to \u201cclap\u201d for him.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the latest way Chinese are showing support for their leader, affectionately nicknamed \u201cXi Dada,\u201d and at the same time participating in the emergence of Mr. Xi as the kind of preeminent leader China hasn\u2019t seen in more than a generation. The Chinese state under Mr. Xi is exerting ever greater control over the economy and the country\u2019s populace, and its leading technology companies appear willing to go along, if only as a cost of doing business.<\/p>\n<p>As the Communist Party\u2019s congress opened Wednesday, videogame company Tencent Holdings Ltd. released a free game in which users try to outdo one another with hearty virtual applause for Mr. Xi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tencent-launches-smartphone-game-in-support-of-chinas-president-1508415173\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give it up for President Xi Jinping ! It\u2019s so easy to do. Just vigorously tap on your smartphone screen to \u201cclap\u201d for him. That\u2019s the latest way Chinese are showing support for their leader, affectionately nicknamed \u201cXi Dada,\u201d and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64840\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,94,502,589,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-china","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64842,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64840\/revisions\/64842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}