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China has a 240-hour visa-free transit policy for foreigners. Most major cities have direct flights—come and see China! (Remember to download Alipay in advance
by drake99 1y ago
China has a 240-hour visa-free transit policy for foreigners. Most major cities have direct flights—come and see China! (Remember to download Alipay in advance and link your Visa card.)
- skeptrune 1y agoI should! It sounds like it would be an amazing and eye opening experience.
- mysterypie 1y agoDo you still get fingerprinted under the visa-free transit policy for foreigners? I can accept a facial scan, but I draw the line at fingerprints and more invasive biometrics.
- drake99 1y agohttps://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/12/2025-03944/alien-registration-form-and-evidence-of-registration https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/12/2025-03...
- jama211 1y agoWeird hill to die on imo but even Japan does fingerprints, it’s not that weird
- CamperBob2 1y agoSeriously? After the OPM hack, you're objecting to being fingerprinted for a visa? They already have everything on us, and I mean everything.
- netsharc 1y agoI went to China in 2019, and they scanned my iris... yeah... At an airport, there was a sign that said "Stand in front of the camera and we'll tell you the way to your gate.". It scanned my face, and on the screen it showed me my name (I guess to make sure it's the correct person), my gate, and how to walk there. I never consented to this commercial use...
- vessenes 1y agoThat's almost certainly available in a public database in China, FYI. I got to speak at a cool event in Shenzhen in 2019 and the gates automatically face (and maybe iris?) recognized for entry -- I never 'got scanned' consciously, but they worked great first try.
- jama211 1y agoI mean, you’re in a public place, I don’t know any airport in the world that isn’t full of cameras recording you the whole time
- netsharc 1y agoAs far as I know, face-recognition tech is illegal in law-abiding countries. Although it's probably mostly a legal impediment, I can imagine if the authorities spotted an event and need to track a suspect, they can put all the footage into a system and it will return a sequence of videos/angles in which the suspect was seen.
- jama211 1y agoI live in Australia and it’s legal here. Even if it wasn’t, wouldn’t stop much.
- lmm 1y agoYou mean like what the US does? Yeah, crazy.
- coldpie 1y agoThat's good info, thanks. I've been studying Chinese (Mandarin/Simplified) for about 2 years now, just as something to do on the bus for fun. It would be cool to go visit some day, maybe once my listening skills get up to an intermediate level.