Breaking:China suspends short-term visa issuances to S. Koreans!

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The Chinese Embassy in South Korea issued a notice on Tuesday suspending the issuance of short-term visas to South Korean citizens visiting China for business, tourism, medical treatment, transit or general private affairs.

Source: Official Notice of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea

The measures will be adjusted depending on the cancellation of South Korea's discriminatory entry restrictions against Chinese citizens, the notice added.

The announcement comes a day after Foreign Minister Qin Gang expressed concern about the restrictions in a telephone call with his South Korean counterpart Park Jin, according to China's foreign ministry.

South Korea began requiring travellers from China to undergo a PCR test upon arrival from last week, joining a growing list of countries imposing border restrictions amid concern over infections following China's decision to end its zero-COVID policies.

Effective Thursday, arrivals are also required to provide a negative PCR result, taken within 48 hours of the beginning of the journey to South Korea, or a rapid antigen test taken within 24 hours, while short-term visa issuance has been suspended for Chinese nationals until the end of the month.

China vows to take reciprocal countermeasures against a few countries which have imposed discriminatory entry restrictions on travelers from China.

PTI

About the variants in the US. Are you going to take any countermeasures now that you have opened up the borders and also opened to travelers from the US? So are you going to take any steps in this regard to test or probably to ban travelers from the US?

Wang Wenbin

Since China announced the decision to manage COVID-19 with measures against Class-B infectious diseases and adopted provisional measures on cross-border travel, many countries have expressed their welcome, but a few countries have also announced entry restriction measures targeting travelers from China. China has been in communication with relevant countries with the utmost sincerity in this regard based on facts, and has elaborated on China’s science-based and reasonable COVID measures refinement and China’s current COVID situation. Regrettably, a handful of countries, in disregard of science and facts, have insisted on taking discriminatory entry restriction measures targeting China. China firmly rejects this and will take reciprocal measures.

We once again call on all parties to make sure that their COVID response measures are fact-based, science-based and proportionate and avoid politicizing COVID. China stands ready to maintain close communication with all parties, adapt COVID measures to the changing epidemic situation, make joint efforts to facilitate cross-border people-to-people exchanges, and contribute to global solidarity against COVID and to world economic recovery.

Source：https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-01-10/China-suspends-short-term-visa-issuances-to-South-Koreans-1gtzyw5LE2c/index.html；Source: Official Notice of the Chinese Embassy in South Korea；https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/202301/t20230109_11004534.html

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