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The Chinese are warning their citizens about travel to the U.S. > China issued an alert warning its citizens and students of the potential risk of traveling in
by loevborg 1y ago
The Chinese are warning their citizens about travel to the U.S.
> China issued an alert warning its citizens and students of the potential risk of traveling in the U.S. and attending schools there.
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> “Recently, due to the deterioration of China-US economic and trade relations and the domestic security situation in the United States, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism reminds Chinese tourists to fully assess the risks of traveling to the United States and be cautious,” the ministry said in an alert.
Can't blame them honestly
- fifilura 1y ago[flagged]
- bllguo 1y agoyea the government is scaring them, not anything the US is doing. sure. the mental gymnastics know no bounds
- pb7 1y agoWhat is the US doing to Chinese visitors?
- StefanBatory 1y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/chinese-woman-border-patrol-arizona-suicide https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/chinese-woma...
- pb7 1y agoThe US forced her to overstay her visa and commit suicide?
- jeetoid 1y ago[flagged]
- gmuslera 1y agoThe citizens of other countries should be concerned too. Even short term plans could end badly for some disruptive measure Trump because whatever, as he did basically every week since he got in charge.
- mtremsal 1y agoMany EU countries have done the same in recent weeks. This is less about putting diplomatic pressure, and more about warning people to avoid traveling to the US due to real danger.
- pb7 1y agoThere is no real danger so this is mostly diplomatic pressure.
- Hackbraten 1y agoHave you ever experienced being detained by CBP?
- pb7 1y agoNo I haven't because the odds of it happening to an ordinary person are a rounding error, now and at any other point in time.
- prmoustache 1y agoNobody wants to be that rounding error.
- Hikikomori 1y agoGerman and another Europeans were detained by ICE and ended up spending weeks in solitary confinement, past their plane back.
- righthand 1y agoThe US government has already been rounding people up who haven’t committed a crime. Most notably a student from Columbia college. This is a real danger.
- bayarearefugee 1y agoThey've also been shipping people off to a prison in El Salvador without due process and, according to them, no way to bring them back if they send the wrong person. Avoiding travel to the US right now is a perfectly reasonable decision.
- sebtron 1y agoMultiple European countries have issued travel warnings for the US too.
- arandomusername 1y agoTravel warnings like "make sure your paperwork is in order" yeah?
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoI have a trip to China on Saturday and I'm worried about: a. Chinese retaliation. I don't think they are going to start arresting Americans, but it might get uncomfortable if I don't have my passport in the subway station. b. American retaliation. My wife has a greencard, this is actually worrying me more than anything, although as far as I have heard so far, we should be OK. Trip is still on. I'm really interested in how China has changed since I left 8 years ago.
- pb7 1y ago[flagged]
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoI don't think you have lived experience to back that up. There are definitely people being turned away at customs in the US, and China has targeted nationals of other countries they have disputes with (e.g. during the Huawei daughter incident and putting two Canadians in jail for two years while she got house arrest in her mansion). And anyways, having your passport in a Beijing subway station is just the way things are now (never was needed before, but they random check all the time before I left in 2016).
- pb7 1y agoThere have been people turned away at customs for as long as you have been alive. These are only stories because they're effective at manipulating you into believing the narrative du jour.
- noname120 1y agoWhat quantitative evidence do you have of that?
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoYes, and I've always been the "it could never happen to me" person. But now things are volatile and chaotic. That is elevated risk, and you just shouldn't ignore it.