Video emerged this week of a foreigner being held down with a pole by three officials in Beijing for not wearing a mask in public. Authorities have been dishing out embarrassing public punishments to those not wearing masks as part of a concentrated push to stop a second spread of Covid-19, but some foreigners feel they are being unfairly targetted. Nathan van der Klippe is The Globe and Mail's Beijing correspondent.
Workers producing face masks at a factory in Handan on January 22, 2020. Photo: STR / AFP
