war starting, Beijing muliple govt agencies repeated warning Chinese Citizens against visiting USA

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赴美中国公民提高安全意识

2019-06-05 00:55

昨日，国务院新闻办公室发布会上，外交部发布安全提醒：近期，美国执法机构多次采取出入境盘查、上门约谈等多种方式骚扰赴美国中国公民。外交部和中国驻美国使领馆提醒赴美国中国公民和在美国中资机构提高安全意识，注意加强防范。　据央视新闻


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/04/china-warns-citizens-against-travel-to-the-us.html

PoliticsChina warns citizens against travel to the US
Published Tue, Jun 4 2019 5:29 AM EDTUpdated 2 hours ago

Evelyn Cheng@chengevelyn





Key Points

• China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Tuesday a safety warning for Chinese citizens and companies in the U.S.
• The Ministry of Culture and Tourism also issued a warning Tuesday for Chinese tourists traveling to America.
• These announcements follow the Ministry of Education’s warning on Monday to Chinese students studying abroad that noted recent U.S. restrictions on some Chinese student visas.

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Beijing has stepped up its warnings against the U.S. by cautioning about working, studying and traveling in America.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a safety warning on Tuesday for Chinese citizens and companies in the U.S.. according to state broadcaster CCTV.

“Recently, U.S. law enforcement agencies have on multiple occasions used methods such as entry and exit checks, and on-site interviews to harass Chinese citizens in the U.S.,” the ministry said, according to CCTV.
“The Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Embassy and Consulate in the U.S. warn Chinese citizens and Chinese-invested institutions to raise their safety awareness, strengthen preventative measures, and respond properly,” it added.

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“In case of emergency, please promptly contact the Chinese consulate in the U.S. for help.”
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism also issued an alert Tuesday for Chinese tourists traveling to America. “Recently, shootings, robberies and theft have occurred frequently in the U.S.,” the ministry said on its website in Chinese, according to a CNBC translation.
Tuesday’s announcements follow the Ministry of Education’s warning on Monday for Chinese students studying abroad that noted recent U.S. restrictions on some Chinese student visas.

The multiple warnings come amid increasing trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Beijing toughened its stance over the weekend by officially laying the blame on the U.S. for the trade war, to which U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration responded by saying China was pursuing a “blame game.”
In January, the State Department issued a travel advisory telling American citizens to “exercise increased caution” when traveling to China due to Beijing’s attempts, on occasion, to prevent U.S. citizens from leaving the Asian country. On Saturday, The Associated Press reported the State Department is now requiring nearly all U.S. visa applicants to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers.

 

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China Warns Citizens Against U.S. Travel, Citing ‘Frequent’ Shootings
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June 4, 2019, 3:50 PM GMT+8 Updated on June 4, 2019, 11:05 PM GMT+8

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• Trade tensions deepen between U.S. and China ahead of G-20

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China issued a travel advisory on the U.S. through the end of the year, threatening to further hurt some luxury goods makers in the latest salvo of a trade battle that appears to be escalating by the day.


The country’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism cited recent “frequent” shootings, robbery and theft as the reason for its alert, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Tuesday. It didn’t provide any statistics or further details.


“Recently, U.S. law enforcement agencies have repeatedly harassed Chinese citizens visiting the United States through exit and entry inspections, door-to-door interviews and other means,” state-run China Central Television reported Tuesday, citing the foreign ministry.



“The foreign ministry and Chinese embassies and consulates in the United States remind Chinese citizens and Chinese-funded institutions in the United States to raise security awareness and take more precautions,” it said.



Asked if the move was part of the protracted trade dispute, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters in Beijing it was a response to “current circumstances.”
Tensions between the U.S. and China have deepened in recent weeks, after trade negotiations between them fell apart in early May. The Trump administration has since blacklisted China’s crown jewel, Huawei Technologies Co., and is considering similar restrictions on more of the country’s tech firms. In response, China has threatened its own blacklist of “unreliable entities.”
Already Falling

China hasn’t issued a similar warning about travel to the U.S. in at least the past decade, according to a search of state-run media. The foreign ministry advised travelers last October that U.S. customs enforcement officers had the right to check their belongings such as bags, electronic devices and autos without a search warrant. It also issued safety tips to Chinese tourists travelling to the remote U.S. territory of Saipan after a typhoon in November.

Chinese tourism to the U.S. had been falling even before the advisory. Three million Chinese tourists traveled to the U.S. in 2018, down from 3.2 million the previous year, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office, which collects data from U.S. customs forms. But Chinese citizens still spent more while stateside: $36.4 billion in 2018 -- up from $35.3 billion the year before -- making them the biggest spenders of all international tourists.
Crimes Falling
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday morning.

Major U.S. crime rates are falling, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The number of violent crimes fell 4.3 percent in the first six months of 2018 from a year earlier, while murders fell 6.7 percent, robberies fell 12.5 percent and thefts fell 6.3 percent.
A total of 38,658 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S. in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report published in July of 2018. The death rate from gun-related injuries was 11.8 per 100,000 people in 2016, up from 10.1 in 2010 but below levels seen in previous decades.
Economic Weapon
China has a history of wielding tourism as an economic weapon against other countries. In 2017, it banned package tours to South Korea in a show of dissatisfaction over deploying a U.S.-backed missile system. The ban shaved 0.4 percentage points off Korea’s economic growth that year.
The Culture and Tourism Ministry issued a similar notice against traveling to Canada in January, as diplomatic ties frayed following Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou’s arrest in Vancouver at America’s request. It cited Meng’s detention as the reason for its advisory, urging Chinese tourists to fully assess the risks before traveling to the North American country.
The advisory came a day after China warned its students studying in the U.S. to be vigilant as the Trump administration steps up restrictions on academic visas and intensifies its scrutiny of Chinese researchers working in America.
Read more: Trump’s Next Trade War Target: Chinese Students at Elite Schools
The move will likely deepen the pressure already being felt by consumer and retail companies in the U.S. who’ve been traditionally reliant on big-spending Chinese tourists to prop up sales.
PVH Corp., the parent company of Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, plunged the most in a decade last week after trimming its revenue outlook. It blamed the escalating tariffs battle for causing anxiety for both American and Chinese shoppers.

American jeweler Tiffany & Co. said late last year that lower spending by tourists, particularly from China, to its flagship store in New York was a factor for its results missing analysts’ estimates. On Tuesday, it blamed lower tourist spending again for a shortfall in first-quarter sales.

Chinese Tourism Boom That Propped Up Luxury Brands Is Faltering
Casinos and cruise lines would also feel pressure from the warning, as both industries have become increasingly reliant on wealthy Chinese tourists. China became the world’s biggest spender in international tourism in 2012 and its share has been growing ever since, according to data from the World Tourism Organization, a United Nations agency.
— With assistance by Dandan Li, Peter Martin, Rachel Chang, Jiyeun Lee, Li Liu, Chris Kay, James Mayger, Cecile Daurat, Crystal Chui, Crayton Harrison, and Josh Wingrove
(Updates with White House not responding to comment request in ninth paragraph, crime statistics in 10th paragraph.)

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https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-travel-alert-us-20190604-story.html

China warns citizens against U.S. travel, claiming harassment by law enforcement



By Associated Press

Jun 04, 2019 | 5:55 AM

| BEIJING

Chinese tourists take in the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall National Memorial in 2012. (Mary Altaffer / Associated Press)



China issued a travel warning for the U.S. on Tuesday, saying Chinese visitors have been interrogated, interviewed and subjected to other forms of what it called harassment by U.S. law enforcement agencies.

The warning urges Chinese citizens and Chinese-funded bodies in the U.S. to step up their safety awareness and preventative measures and respond "appropriately and actively." It was issued by the foreign ministry, as well as the Chinese Embassy and consulates in the U.S.

The warning comes amid an increasingly bitter trade dispute between Beijing and Washington and tougher immigration enforcement by the Trump administration.

China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued its own travel alert for the U.S. on Tuesday, noting the high frequency of shootings, robberies and theft in the country. Chinese students abroad were urged Monday to assess the risks involved given tightened visa restrictions.

The alerts are valid until Dec. 31.

Commenting on the warning issued to students, foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the U.S. side had to be aware of the obstacles and impact it had created.

"For some time, the U.S. has politicized normal China-U.S. educational exchanges using the China threat and Chinese infiltration as excuses," Geng said at a daily briefing.

Chinese social media has been abuzz with talk of U.S. visa and green card denials and other travel, education and employment woes under Trump, who has sought to restrict the numbers of foreign visitors and others coming to the U.S. for what he claims are security and economic reasons.

Partly as a result, Chinese travel to the U.S. is falling after more than a decade of rapid growth, leaving cities, malls and other tourist spots scrambling to reverse the trend.

Travel from China to the U.S. fell 5.7% in 2018 to 2.9 million visitors, according to the National Travel and Tourism Office, which collects data from U.S. Customs forms. It was the first time since 2003 that Chinese travel to the U.S. slipped from the prior year.

China also issued a travel warning for the U.S. last summer, telling its citizens to beware of shootings, robberies and high costs for medical care. The U.S. shot back with its own warning about travel to China.

 

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I am absolutely reluctant to even transit USA to south America although there are lots of business potentials. Fucked up airport security Kiasu Kiasi after 911.

I forego these businesses.

 

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altogether now!!! HOOT AH!!!