Tuesday 18 October 2022

As I ponder the possibility that I might not visit mainland China again in my lifetime

Jade Dragon Mountain, Yunnan province
I used to travel regularly to China, that is mainland China, from our eyrie here in Hong Kong. 

Fast trains to Shanghai, car trips to Yunnan's Himalaya, flights to the karsts of Jiangxi. Now, since Covid, none of that. And seemingly that forever, as China doubles and triples down on the Zero Covid policy.

Harry Harding, an Aussie in Guangzhou ponders something similar in "A China closed off from the rest of the world is a loss to everyone".
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Almost three years since the pandemic's initial outbreak, it is unclear when, or if, that kind of [fruitful] engagement might return. If it does, it is also unclear who might be welcome to rejoin.
It may be the golden years, post-1976, are finished. And they were golden. Some were magic. 1990 in Shanghai. s