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• Position: CHINA - Patriotic ring back tones - Brief article

Just in case residents of China's capital, Beijing, weren't feeling sufficiently patriotic around National Day on October 1, the state-controlled cellphone company changed customers' ring-back tones to a patriotic song. "It's a gift," said a China Mobile representative when asked about the change. On September 28, customers found that the standard ring back tone had been changed to the song "Guojia" ("Country"), sung by actor Jackie Chan. The lyrics include: "A country stands up in the world" and "Only when we have a strong country can we have a prosperous family." This year, National. Day marked 60 years of Communist rule: On Oct. 1, 1949...