{"id":486757,"date":"2023-01-10T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=486757"},"modified":"2023-01-20T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:35:11","slug":"beijing-suspends-visas-for-south-korean-japanese-visitors-after-travel-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/beijing-suspends-visas-for-south-korean-japanese-visitors-after-travel-restrictions","title":{"rendered":"Beijing suspends visas for South Korean, Japanese visitors after travel restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese embassies suspended issuing new visas for South Korean and Japanese people on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for COVID-19 testing requirements recently imposed by those countries on travelers from China. The embassies in Tokyo and Seoul announced the suspensions in brief online notices. The Chinese Embassy in Seoul, in a brief notice on its WeChat social media account, said the ban would continue until South Korea lifts its &#8220;discriminatory entry measures&#8221; against China. The announcement covered tourist, business and some other visas. China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry had threatened countermeasures last week against countries that announced new coronavirus testing requirements for travelers from China. At least 10 nations in Europe, North America and Asia have done so recently, with officials expressing concern about a lack of information about rapidly spreading outbreaks in China. It wasn&#8217;t clear why South Korea and Japan were targeted or whether the suspensions would be expanded to other countries that have imposed coronavirus testing on passengers from China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is suspending visas for visitors from South Korea and Japan, in apparent retaliation against the countries&#8217; restrictions on Chinese travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}