LONDON, U.K.— In Quebec, the English-speaking minority used to call them “tongue-troopers”: the government functionaries who come around to check that the French on signs in shops is in a typeface twice as big as the English. Now China will have tongue-troopers too, although the regime has no fear that Chinese might be replaced by Zhuang, Kazakh, or Korean.

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