Going potty in Beijing


A paramilitary policeman stands guard under a giant portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen gate in Beijing, China June 3, 2016. REUTERS

A revisit after 21 years didn’t win over the writer’s heart or tastebuds.

AH, Mao Zedong! At last I glimpsed something that I could recognise. The giant portrait of the father of communist China on Tiananmen Gate looked exactly the same as it did 21 years ago.

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Opinion , June H. L. Wong , columnist

   

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