Anonymous ID: f7d870 May 11, 2025, 2:24 p.m. No.23022120   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2140 >>2163 >>2228 >>2298

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CHINA: US to Probe Reports of Swabs on Its Americans Arriving in China.

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By Bloomberg News

May 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM UTC

The US embassy in China said it received reports that American citizens are being subjected to “invasive medical testing” upon arrival in the country.

“We are looking into these reports,” the embassy in Beijing said in a response to a query by Bloomberg. “The U.S. Mission to China has no greater priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens in China.”

A US citizen on a plane that arrived at Pudong International in Shanghai on May 2 told Bloomberg all foreign passport holders on the flight were corralled into an area after landing. A Chinese inspector scraped their tongues with a swab repeatedly, the person who was a former genetics researcher said, asking not to be identified for privacy reasons.

The passengers on the plane that was from the UK weren’t told why they were swabbed or what the samples would be used for, the person said.

Read more: China Issues Travel Warning for Citizens Going to US

The Chinese Foreign Ministry didn’t respond for a request for comment sent outside of office hours Saturday.

Arrivals, including Chinese citizens, were asked to do tests in airports in Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai for flu, covid and mpox since last year, and some were provided consent forms, according to some social media posts.

“In order to protect the health of you and others, quarantine officials need to take samples for the related laboratory tests,” according to a digital image of the form posted by some netizens on the Instagram-styled social media platform Xiaohongshu.

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>Has China already launched a second biological attack? The same sort of response to the tarrifs that it did back in late 2019? And are now trying to monitor whether any infections are making their way back to China?

Anonymous ID: f7d870 May 11, 2025, 2:38 p.m. No.23022184   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2194

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Pakistan, by some counts, has 156 JF-17 Chinese fighter jets in it's Air Force. ChinaGAVEthem 50 just a couple of weeks after the US Stealth Helicopter crashed during the Bin Laden raid on May 2nd, 2011. NY Times reported this on May 19th. Seventeen days later.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/world/asia/20pakistan.html