The view from China

Quarantine-free travel

There has been some encouraging news from Singapore this week as the authorities prepare to allow quarantine-free travel from 19 October to eight nations, including the UK, France, Spain and the US. Separately, citizens from Germany and Brunei were allowed to enter Singapore without quarantine from September.

Japan’s largest business group, the Keidanren, continues to press for quarantine-free travel to the country for both tourists and business travellers, and even China has recently discussed the possibility of border restrictions easing after the Beijing Winter Olympics in March 2022.

Vietnam and Australia are also relieving their quarantine restrictions and earlier this week Thailand announced there will be new quarantine free travel policies implemented for selected foreign travellers in November.

Improving US-China relations

The release of detained Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou from house detention in Vancouver at the end of last month and the subsequent freeing of the ‘two Michaels’ from imprisonment in China certai