Wang Qun's journey is a living example of “run philosophy” -- a Chinese buzzword that advocates emigrating from China to escape what some see as a doomed future under Xi Jinping's rule.
Unlike many of the thousands aiming to cross the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border illegally each day, Wang was not fleeing poverty or violence south of the wall.Instead, the 33-year-old Chinese citizen was running from China's unrelenting zero-Covid policy and growing authoritarianism under leader Xi Jinping.From the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Wang left his family behind to travel thousands of miles by plane, bus, boat and motorcycle.
He was excited by the ride, taking a selfie video with passengers sitting behind him, who laughed, cheered and gave the thumbs up. But the journey ahead almost broke him from exhaustion. Wang spent three days hiking through Panama's dense rainforest, trudging in mud, wading through rivers and climbing over cliffs."It was so painful. I felt like a walking corpse, and at one point, after 12 hours of walking, I thought I was going to die," he said.
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