Earlier in 2023, I left Beijing after spending five eventful years there as one of The Straits Times’ China correspondents.
So much has happened since I was posted to the Chinese capital in early 2018. In my time there, I saw the start of the US-China trade war and how Beijing’s relations with the West nosedived.
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