Beijing Capital International Airport is located in northeast of Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China, and 25.35km from the Tiananmen Square. The main terminal was designed by the English architect Lord Foster. Its opening coincided with the 2008 Summer Olympics. I've transited through the airport on several trips to Thailand. Modern clean and efficient, the terminal nevertheless feels like it was built for the tripling of the Chinese economy. Its vast gateways are void of people. Almost as if Stanley Kubrick was coming back from the dead to film THE SHINING 2 in the airport and the internet has the same feel. Like a ghost is trawling your computer for subversive online connections such as Facebook.
It's cold too.
Outside it's -2 Centigrade and the terminal is about 15C.
I think they turned on the air-conditioning to freeze me out of the free Wi-Fi area. The connection is free for MCAA. A fellow traveler told me that the free service is so the ghosts can surveil your internet activity. The USA has NSA on that task. Billions of dollars to save the nation by spying on its people. The Chinese probably sold the government the system. No one in the world makes anything other than the Chinese. Even baseball bats.
Only another four hours to go.
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