Zhou Is Butt of Online Jokes as China Allows Mirth Over His Fate

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Brave enough to touch the tiger’s butt?

That’s the challenge in a game featuring the image of a tiger on Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat messaging app regaling users since a corruption investigation into retired security chief Zhou Yongkang was announced July 29. Zhou is the highest-level official to fall in China’s bid to sweep away both “tigers and flies” in an anti-graft campaign.