Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has downplayed threats of retaliation from Beijing as the country follows in the stead of other governments in imposing mandatory COVID-19 testing on Chinese travellers.
The Chinese communist regime has condemned the measure introduced on Jan. 5 on travellers from China, Hong Kong, and Macau.
“We believe that the entry restrictions adopted by some countries targeting China lack scientific basis, and some excessive practices are even more unacceptable,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily briefing in Beijing on Jan. 3.
She said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opposed attempts to allegedly “manipulate” COVID-19 measures for “political purposes.”…