Like many, I am trying to find ways to process the results of last week’s US elections. I am not American but feel very concerned by this result as Canada seems also to be sliding toward the right. The return of the convicted felon to power is unfathomable to me, it scares me and it angers me. In 2016, I had just arrived in Beijing and I cried so hard. I have a photo of me walking toward the embassy here, in tears. Eight years later, I took a picture along that very same stretch of road. This time, there are no tears, only anger and discouragement.


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