Child's glee shows path to shared future

On the flight I took from Beijing to Johannesburg to report on the Johannesburg BRICS Summit last week, I met a South African woman and her daughter who were seated beside me.

What attracted my attention was that the little girl, around 10 years old, was watching a Chinese comedy being shown on the flight and giggling from time to time.

Her mother told me they spent two weeks visiting Guangzhou, Yiwu, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing and were flying back home.