Michelle Obama ignored warnings from her own embassy about the
dangers of China’s toxic skies on Sunday as she toured a stretch
of the Great Wall near Beijing on a smoggy day without wearing a
protective mask.
Earlier in the day, the US embassy’s pollution monitoring
station posted a “protection recommended” alert after levels of
a harmful airborne particulate known as PM2.5 rose to “very
unhealthy” levels in Beijing.
However, contrary to that recommendation the First Lady wore no
mask as she took a stroll with her two daughters on a section of
the Great Wall of China around 44 miles northeast of the city
centre.
The visit to part of the 13,000-mile Great Wall in Mutianyu
village came on the third full day of Mrs Obama’s weeklong tour
of China.
The First Lady’s group reportedly lunched on Chinese noodles,
dumplings and salads but was unable to purchase the normally
omnipresent “Oba-Mao tourist t-shirts featuring Barack Obama
clad in the uniform of Chairman Mao.
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