Chinese state media have described online games as “spiritual opium,” causing tech giant Tencent to lose almost $60 billion USD in stock value. Reuters reports that the Economic Information Daily (affiliated with Xinhua, China’s largest state-run news agency) had cited Tencent’s Honor of Kings in an article on minors being addicted to online games, playing for up to eight hours a day. “‘Spiritual opium’ has grown into an industry worth hundreds of billions. […] No industry, no sport, can be allowed to develop in a way that will destroy a generation.” The drug opium is still a sensitive subject; following...