Suifenhe is a county-level city in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang with a population of 70,000. It shares a 27km-long border with Russia and is the only Chinese city in which trading with the Russian rouble is legal. The cross-border railway is an important freight transport link but most travellers arrive at the Suifenhe checkpoint having endured a three-hour bus ride from Vladivostok. China temporarily shut the Suifenhe checkpoint on April 7 to contain the cross-border spread of the coronavirus.
The Diplomat: COVID-19: Trouble on the China-Russia Border
China closed its border to prevent imported cases from Russia. Now Russians fear a surge in infections from stranded Chinese travellers.
Suifenhe is a county-level city on the eastern edge of China’s 4,300-kilometer border with Russia. It is 2,000 km away from Wuhan, where the COVID-19 crisis began late last year, and until recently, the epidemic may have felt quite distant.
Locally, Suifenhe is best known for a series of increasingly extravagant national gates in its land port, which are designed to project China’s progress over recent decades, in the face of Russia’s simultaneous decline. During the current pandemic, however, this land port was repurposed as a collective quarantine site for 1,479 Chinese citizens.
This is the result of the hasty return of Chinese citizens domiciled in Russia, which has seen Suifenhe replace Wuhan as the new focal point in China’s domestic struggle to contain COVID-19. As of April 20, 2020, almost 2,500 nationals had re-entered China via the city’s land port. Of them, 377 were diagnosed with COVID-19, with 27 designated as “asymptomatic” cases in China’s terminology.
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Update: Russia’s Covid-19 surge means China cannot fully relax its guard (SCMP)
WNU Editor: Russia was one of the first countries that closed its borders with China when the Covid-19 outbreak was spreading in China, and was widely criticized by Beijing. Now Beijing has closed its borders with Russia, and telling its own citizens stuck in Russia that they are on their own.
15 comments:
"and telling its own citizens stuck in Russia that they are on their own."
Is it reasonable to expect a country to retrieve its citizens?
What are the stats on that?
Do citizens have a responsibility to read the news and game out what will happen next in current events and plan their overseas vacations or work accordingly?
In general expats increase the wealth of their country.
If there a acceptable time limit for a country to 'retrieve its' citizens?
"A former contestant on Trump's Celebrity Apprentice, Snider called the president's response to the current coronavirus pandemic a 'mockery' and said he would rather vote for a 'baked potato' than cast his ballot for Trump in November."
Dee Snider's daughter was home about 8 days later.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8136725/US-faces-herculean-task-bringing-citizens-pandemic.html
But in the meantime he gave Trump shit.
How many resources do you expend. Do you divert every aircraft in the MAC?
How many Americans or what percentage of travellers read travel advisories out out by the state department?
I think countries should make an attempt. They should look at their resources and see what they can swing. It build solidarity (hate using Lefty word) for one. But citizens should not expect a country to drop everything immediately and come get them.
Makes sense if the CCP sent infected people into Russia. Stay there & spread the virus. 🙄
Pawns in the game
Look go around the boundaries
Might need a horse
Hell with the highways
Political fools never change
Just fools
All of themselves
Unloved fools
Better if we all had a gun at age 16
Armed the world
No boarders
Let my people go please
Mission not so possible
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