{"id":1794264,"date":"2023-01-03T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794264"},"modified":"2023-01-03T18:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:49:24","slug":"beijing-threatens-countermeasures-against-countries-requiring-covid-test-for-travelers-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-threatens-countermeasures-against-countries-requiring-covid-test-for-travelers-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Threatens \u2018Countermeasures\u2019 To be against Countries that Require COVID Testing for Travelers from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeijing-threatens-countermeasures-against-countries-requiring-covid-test-for-travelers-from-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese<\/a> Government, whose draconian policies are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-protesters-in-china-are-cleverly-defying-their-communist-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zero COVID<\/a>\u201d Policy forced people to stay at home for up 100 days. This was in response to countries around the world who will need it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID<\/a> testing for travelers from the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC).<\/p>\n<p>As an example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2022\/12\/15\/1143002538\/china-appears-to-be-facing-what-could-be-the-world-s-largest-coronavirus-outbrea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surge<\/a> COVID has infected the Chinese people. The communist government has refused information about its spread to the rest of the globe and was insulted. \u201cunacceptable\u201d China imposes travel restrictions on Chinese travelers. Beijing slammed the U.S., Canada, Japan, India, Canada and France for their safety measures and threatened to retaliate. \u201ccountermeasures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting China lack scientific basis, and some excessive practices are even more unacceptable,\u201d China\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/beijing-threatens-response-to-unacceptable-covid-19-measures-for-chinese-travelers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are firmly opposed to attempts to manipulate the COVID measures for political purposes and will take countermeasures based on the principle of reciprocity,\u201d Mao added.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announced last week that all Chinese travelers would need to be subject to COVID testing. This is because the communist country faces a new wave of infections following its recent efforts to reduce its restrictions. \u201czero COVID\u201d policies last month. The U.S. travel requirements <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-china-covid-19-pandemic-ab51ca49e69633ae7028db36d06c54f3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">begin<\/a> Thursday will affect all travelers, regardless of their age or nationality who are coming from China to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2022\/p1228-COVID-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cited<\/a> A \u201clack of adequate and transparent epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data being reported from the PRC\u201d It is a key factor in deciding to implement the travel requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVariants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to emerge in countries around the world. However, reduced testing and case reporting in the PRC and minimal sharing of viral genomic sequence data could delay the identification of new variants of concern if they arise,\u201d The CDC stated.<\/p>\n<p>Elisabeth Borne (French Prime Minister) stated that France is applying the COVID test measures to protect French people. Mark Harper, Transport Secretary in the U.K. stated that the COVID test is mandatory. \u201ccollecting information\u201d The AP reported that China had not provided sufficient data to the rest of the world regarding its COVID infections.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Sweden holds the EU presidency. \u201cis preparing to be able to introduce travel restrictions. At the same time, we are conducting a dialogue with our European colleagues to get the same rules as possible in the EU,\u201d according to Justice Minister Gunnar Str\u00f6mmer.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s threat to react to the COVID measures taken by the rest of the world on its travelers comes days after former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chinas-xi-is-doing-it-again-pompeo-suggests-cutting-off-china-travel-as-covid-surges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advised<\/a> Countries to block travel from communist countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no reason we should allow the Chinese to do this again, to send Chinese-infected persons around the world knowingly infecting people all across the globe. [Chinese President Xi Jinping] got away with this once. I regret that he wasn\u2019t held accountable, he hasn\u2019t been held accountable,\u201d Pompeo spoke on Sunday to John Catsimatidis of New York Radio. \u201cBut he\u2019s doing it again, so, John, just as in the spring of 2020 when he sent people around the world he knew were infected, he\u2019s doing the same darn thing again. He\u2019s going to infect millions more. We shouldn\u2019t let that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government, whose draconian \u201czero COVID\u201d policy forced people to stay in their homes for as long as 100 days at a time, lashed out at countries around the world that will require COVID testing for travelers from the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC). As a surge of COVID infects the Chinese people, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1794267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[13130,4290,4501,11545,4127,6202,9456,6287,4622,4380,6195],"class_list":["post-1794264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-countermeasures","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-countries","tag-covid","tag-daily","tag-require","tag-testing","tag-threatens","tag-travelers","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}