During the much-anticipated final of the Asia Rugby Sevens tournament between South Korea and Hong Kong, a protest song associated with Hong Kong’s anti-China independence movement was played before the start of the match. The Korean organisers promptly announced an apology and subsequently played the Chinese national anthem ahead of the match in South Korea’s Incheon. In recent years Hong Kong, which is a Special Administrative Region controlled by China, has seen massive protests demanding more autonomy from mainland China, democratic reforms, and fair investigations into human rights violations by the government. The song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’, became popular...