CHINA
Country Overview:
“Love the food, hate the government”
I arrived in China in May 2013 and left August 2020. I taught English for awhile, did my master’s of politics & foreign policy at Tsinghua University, worked for a year at China Today, and then two years at Xinhua News Agency. I spent most of my time in Beijing, but also traveled to Shanghai, Wuhan, Inner Mongolia, Shenzhen, Panjin, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Xi’an, Sanya, Macau, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
This week is APEC
Apec is an economic conference of sorts, where businessmen come to Beijing to discuss how to make more money. Because of this, Beijing has put big floral arrangements around the city, signs on bridges welcoming everyone, and has somehow managed to keep the skies blue. There are rumors of rockets being shot into the sky dispersing some sort of chemical. The movie “Snowpiercer” comes to mind. With all the buzz about APEC, Chinese social media has created the acronym “Air Pollution Eventually Controlled”. I suppose there should be an asterisks stating ‘for now’