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The announcement came just after Beijing confirmed that it would retaliate against countries that require negative Covid-19 tests from Chinese travelers. Since the almost total reopening of the Asian giant, thousands of citizens have left the country to enjoy tourist destinations in Asia and the rest of the world. Analysts expect China’s economic recovery to benefit international markets.
China rejected some of its neighbors imposing controls on their citizens and in retaliation suspended the issuance of short-term visas for the Japanese and South Koreans.
After Xi Jinping’s controversial ‘Zero Covid’ policy began to weaken in December after the protests that broke out in that country, this Sunday, January 8, the Asian giant opened its doors almost completely after three years of the restriction .
To the demonstrations of a population tired of the PCR tests, the confinements and the restrictions to transit even in all their homes, was added the pressure of the world market that needed the second economy in the world to relax its regulations to help a scenario suffocated by war in a Ukraine and generalized inflation.
And despite the fact that China has very similar requirements for those who want to enter the country, this Tuesday, December 10, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs assured that the restrictions imposed on Chinese citizens are “discriminatory.” At the time, the head of the ministry, Wang Wenbin, promised that there would be “reciprocal measures.”
And it is that the virus continues to spread rapidly, a situation that led Japan, South Korea and the United States to demand, among other things, a negative PCR test of less than 72 hours.
But not all countries have turned away Chinese travelers. On Monday, a day after the reopening, hundreds of people and Thai government officials welcomed the first travelers from China to visit Bangkok to applause and gifts.
It was a high-profile event to celebrate the Chinese once again helping restore Thailand’s tourism industry, already battered by the pandemic, and while other countries had already relaxed their measures, Beijing’s strict lockdown prevented the Chinese from continue to account for a third of all arrivals in Thailand.
With Reuters and AP
