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GLOBALink | Writing friendship across cultures: A Swiss lady's decades-long story with China

Xinhua
31 May 2025, 13:45 GMT+10

Over the past 20 years, 77-year-old Romana Petrini has traveled to almost every province in China. From practicing Tai Chi in Beijing parks to writing children's books inspired by a girl she sponsored in Guangxi, China has become a part of her life and her heart. She shares her story of cross-cultural friendship ahead of #ChildrensDay.

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