This new app for Xi’s speech deserves a clap

At your finger tips: This game on a mobile phone allows users to applaud Xi’s speech as many times as they can in 19 seconds. — AFP

Beijing: Missed out on the orchestrated applause at China’s Communist Party Congress? Cheer up: this being China, you can join the praise through your mobile phone.

China’s ubiquitous WeChat platform has released a game allowing the country’s hundreds of millions of smartphone users to retroactively applaud President Xi Jinping’s more than three-hour opening speech – by tapping their phone screens.