He heads to the airport in Beijing to fly to Hong Kong to visit friends, only to find out at the airport his flight is cancelled. His plans to visit Hong Kong fell apart and suddenly he was stuck in Beijing — one of the lucky ones, as it turns out. I had to transit in the northern Chinese city of Dalian to get to Hong Kong, and in Beijing, the plane I was on was (stationary) for a good hour. “The world we live in right now has been shaped from the ashes of the Second World War,” he says. “If you look, for example, at the world order, the U.S. has withdrawn funding from the WHO (World Health Organization).

Source: thestar April 27, 2020 17:59 UTC