Time.news – The Chinese media define the measures implemented by some countries, including Italy, for travelers from China as “discriminatory” after the wave of infections from Covid-19 that followed the end of the line zero Covid of the Chinese government. In an article citing expert opinion, the Beijing tabloid Global Times, published by the People’s Daily, the Communist Party of China’s news outlet, refers to “a small number of countries and regions,” citing the United States in particular. and Japan, which have imposed restrictions on travelers arriving from China: the measures put in place are “unfounded” and “discriminatory”according to experts, and “the real intention is to sabotage three years of China’s Covid-19 control efforts and attack the country’s system”.
As understandable as these countries’ concerns about Covid-19 are, targeting China, experts argue, is “one dirty political trick“. The position of the experts heard by the Beijing tabloid appears tougher than that officially expressed so far by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which yesterday asked for “specific and appropriate measures” from all countries and to “guarantee the secure exchange of personnel and maintain the stability of global industrial and supply chains”.
The Chinese virologists quoted by the Global Times declare that they “have never stopped monitoring the prevalent variants” in China and that they “would never let new variants go unreported”. However, in the opinion of experts, China’s infections “are a drop in the ocean compared to the global total”, and the risk that China imports new variants from abroad is greater, rather than exporting them to other countries. Despite having the positions of the United States and Japan in its sights above all, the Beijing tabloid also dedicates a passage to the imposition of the mandatory swab decided by the Italian government for those entering the country from China: despite the measure taken, the Global Times writes that ” however the government said on Thursday that Italy did not find any worrying new mutations of Covid-19 in recent arrivals from China who tested positive for Covid-19.