Report from China
No clapping along. No talking. No answering the phone. You can’t sing it at weddings, nor at funerals. And soon, you won’t be able to sing China’s national anthem too fast – or too slow.
China’s appetite for citizen control is going one step further with a new bill that seeks to regulate the tempo at which ‘The March of the Volunteers’ has to be sung.
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