My colleague said ...

My colleague said to me yesterday when he came back from Beijing, “You need to do something to the air. I do not know how people can survive there.” “No wonder people spit so much.” “How can the Olympics be held there?” “I will not go back there.”

He has been a close friend of mine. We coffee-break together everyday. This was his first time in China. I just did not know what to say to him other than “I hope the government will spend more on pollution control.”