Covid-19 pandemic is changing our society in general. While China looks to have been winning this war without smoke as you Chinese like to say, the west is still deep into it. We in Europe are now mostly working from home like you Chinese were a month ago. It looks that Europe and Asia will become more connected what is in fact the aim of the BRI initiative. As the times are extraordinary today we also have the extraordinary opportunity to influence both the thinking of Europe and China.

Covid-19大流行正在改变我们的整个社会。正如中国人想说的那样，尽管中国看上去已经在这场无烟的战争中赢得了胜利，但西方仍然深陷其中。现在，我们欧洲的大多数人都像一个月前的中国人一样在家工作。看起来欧洲和亚洲将变得更加紧密联系，这实际上是“一带一路”倡议的目标。在当今时代非同寻常的今天，我们也有非同寻常的机会来影响欧洲和中国的思想。