{"id":30176,"date":"2023-01-10T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=30176"},"modified":"2023-01-10T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T18:52:08","slug":"china-blocks-s-korea-and-japan-visas-over-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2023\/01\/10\/china-blocks-s-korea-and-japan-visas-over-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"China blocks S Korea and Japan visas over Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: China has stopped issuing short-term visas to individuals from South Korea and Japan in retaliation for Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers.<\/p>\n<p>Visas for South Koreans entering China as tourists have been suspended, Beijing&#8217;s embassy in Seoul said.<\/p>\n<p>And Japanese media reported China was imposing similar measures there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tit-for-tat move which Beijing says will remain in place until &#8220;discriminatory&#8221; entry restrictions against China are lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, South Korea stopped issuing tourist visas for those coming from China, which the Chinese foreign ministry called &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and &#8220;unscientific&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to China&#8217;s latest move, South Korea&#8217;s foreign ministry told the BBC that its policy towards arrivals from China was &#8220;in accordance with scientific and objective evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: China has stopped issuing short-term visas to individuals from South Korea and Japan in retaliation for Covid restrictions on Chinese travellers. Visas for South Koreans entering China as tourists have been suspended, Beijing&rsquo;s embassy in Seoul said. And Japanese media reported China was imposing similar measures there. It&rsquo;s a tit-for-tat move which Beijing says will remain in place until &ldquo;discriminatory&rdquo; entry restrictions against China are lifted. Last week, South Korea stopped issuing tourist visas for those coming from China, which the Chinese foreign ministry called &ldquo;unacceptable&rdquo; and &ldquo;unscientific&rdquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30179,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30176\/revisions\/30179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}