Wei Qi
When this pandemic is over and there are still people alive traumatized and scratching around for hope, or on the contrary, when this pandemic is over, death has declined, economic destruction has ended, and life is more peaceful, one name will be inscribed in thick letters: China.
Goenawan Mohamad
April 7, 2020
THE Covid-19 pandemic is the rebranding process of the People’s Republic of China: what began with the impression of a closed country, not progressive, and threatened, now appears as a strong positive force. It managed to nicely defeat the virus – and not just that: it is able to extend aid and example to the entire world. Sometimes along with a snippet of poetry.
Directly or indirectly, China is now an aura. Its influence is spreadi
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