Author Archives: leendertvandoorn

The first step of getting to China was to get a valid visa. I already had a 10-year multi-entry visa but that was only valid for 60-days at a time and on top of that China had revoked all outstanding visas in 2020 because of COVID. Fortunately, the Microsoft China visa office was there toContinue reading “Getting a Visa”

Why go to China in the middle of a pandemic? That’s the first question people asked me when I told them about my plans to go to China for the summer.  China has always fascinated me since I first travelled there in 2011 when I was still working for AMD. One of my responsibilities at AMDContinue reading “Hatching the plan”

Last September I got the idea to spend some time in China. I’ve travelled to China many times before, but I had never actually lived there, and I wanted to experience first-hand how quickly things are changing in that part of the world. Of course, my timing wasn’t optimal. China had effectively shut down itsContinue reading “This blog”