• She definitely knows that quarantine hotels are self-paid. And yes I do know why very many Chinese people hate the Japanese (I live in China/speak Chinese/studied Chinese history) and while obviously it's no excuse, as you say, I also cannot imagine being able to forgive and forget if I or my family had gone through the absolute horror the Japanese inflicted on China in the 1930s.

  • quarantine hotels are self-paid

    Do you know if Chinese citizens returning from abroad are treated differently? I´ve yet to come across reports on this as foreign media focus on what foreigners face when travelling (back) to China.

    I studied Chinese politics and some simplified Chinese, although it was ages ago and I´ve forgotten most of the latter at least.

  • They're treated exactly the same - everyone arriving in Shanghai is now tested on arrival, whatever passport they hold. In Beijing everyone is quarantined, here in SH they decide if you need to be but anyone coming from 16 specific countries must quarantine. The shanghai newspaper publishes a list of all the new cases every day, listing where the people are from and nationality. Anecdotally, the planes are full of mainly Chinese nationals returning from overseas (students etc).

    It's soooo easy to forget Chinese, the number of times I've stated at a character knowing I've written out the bastard thing 100 times but still can't recall it right there and then...

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