1w ago

China extends visa-free entry to a record 74 countries to boost tourism

www.abc.net.au

China extends visa-free entry to a record 74 countries

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For countries not on the list, a transit policy allows eligible citizens to enter for 10 days if they depart for a different country they arrived from.
Cool cool cool..... Why?
- More flexibility on flight stopovers in China. If you are going somewhere else, China would probably like for you to spend some of your money in a Chinese city. I'm guessing 10 days is the duration because flights occasionally get canceled or delayed. A lot more people would need to apply to extend their visas on stopovers if it was only like 3 days.
  Edit: spelling
  
  I can kinda understand that but I've taken week-long overseas vacations so giving border control extra work verifying a visitor isn't returning home "too fast" seems counter-productive
Things are bad when I consider being kidnapped by the Chinese government as less likely than the US.
I would much rather go to China than the USA right now.
China wouldn't search my phone at the border and China wouldnt arrest me for opinionated social posts I had previously made.
This backwards world we live in.
- I think they might also and also bug your phone. It’s just that the US has become so bad they’re converging to what dictatorships have been doing for ages already
  
  Every cell phone in the US is a "bug" at the behest of our corporate advertisers and data brokers.
China just filling in all the gaps and holes left by the US.
- Now if only their government didn't behave like the party in 1984
  The dystopian surveillance and automated law enforcement system is the only thing that makes me hesitant to move.
  
  Exactly why I would never move to the US either.
So they're really gonna write up that whole article and NOT include the actual list, huh? Embarrassing.

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