Two overseas Chinese housed in poor hygiene hotels, in China, are frustrated living in substandard conditions as local officials shirk responsibility. Using pseudonyms to protect their identities, Masako and Namiko, from Japan, planned to visit relatives in China but were quickly transported to quarantine hotels from the airport. Moldy Hotel Rooms Masako left Japan with her three-year-old daughter, on Nov. 17, intending to visit her mother in Hunan, south central China. When their plane landed in Guangzhou, they and several others were transported to a hotel more than two hours away, where several officials and police waited. Her room on the fifth floor smelled moldy, so Masako insisted on changing rooms. “The entire wall was moldy and the balcony was blocked, so you couldn’t see outside.” After several hours, she got another room. She said, “I nearly broke down. We got off the plane at one o’clock in the afternoon. …