Stolen iPhone ‘bromance’ makes China’s netizens go ‘awww’

The viral saga of the American journalist and the Chinese man who had been using his stolen iPhone climaxes and China’s social media get the feels.

Matt Stopera, 25, and Li Hongjun, 30, met for the first time on March 17 at an airport in southern China, in the final chapter of what some have called an international “bromance”.