Los Angeles Times
Date: Feb. 22, 2020
By: Ralph Jennings

Chen Chi-chuan was grateful when his hotel near the epicenter of the China coronavirus outbreak offered him three free meals a day, from rice porridge breakfasts to specially prepared vegetarian dinners, while he remains barred from leaving China to return to Taiwan.

But after nearly a month in the same room at the state-owned Vienna International Hotel in the city of Shiyan, a six-hour drive from the outbreak epicenter of Wuhan, his patience for China is running thin.

For the past two years China has tried to win the affections of Taiwanese citizens by enticing them to China for work and investment. China’s economy is growing faster and Taiwanese can earn more in China in professional posts.

But aggravation is mounting among the nearly 1,000 visitors, investors and workers from Taiwan stuck behind closed doors this month in the disease outbreak zone.    [FULL  STORY]