{"id":51770,"date":"2023-01-11T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/10\/china-halts-short-term-visas-south-korea-japan-covid-travel-curbs"},"modified":"2023-01-11T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:00:29","slug":"china-halts-short-term-visas-for-south-korea-and-japan-over-covid-travel-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51770","title":{"rendered":"China halts short-term visas for South Korea and Japan over Covid travel curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing had said it would retaliate against countries that require negative tests from Chinese travellers<\/p>\n<p>China has suspended issuing short-term visas in South Korea and Japan after announcing it would retaliate against countries that required negative Covid-19 tests from Chinese travellers.<\/p>\n<p>China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/08\/china-drops-quarantine-for-visitors-as-lunar-new-year-travel-kicks-off-amid-covid-surge\">ditched mandatory quarantines for arrivals<\/a> and allowed travel to resume across its border with Hong Kong since Sunday, removing the last major restrictions under the \u201czero-Covid\u201d regime that it abruptly began dismantling in early December after protests against the curbs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/10\/china-halts-short-term-visas-south-korea-japan-covid-travel-curbs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing had said it would retaliate against countries that require negative tests from Chinese travellersChina has suspended issuing short-term visas in South Korea and Japan after announcing it would retaliate against countries that required negative &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,88,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-japan","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51770\/revisions\/51771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}