(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 30 - China is counterattacking the anti-Covid restrictions imposed by some countries, including Italy.
The Global Times, a tabloid of the Communist Party, states that "a small number of countries and regions, such as the US and Japan, see the reopening of China as another possibility to defame Beijing".
They are adopting, it is the accusation, a "dirty political trick" to "sabotage the 3 years of Chinese efforts in the fight against Covid and to attack the system".
As for Italy, "it is imposing mandatory tests for travelers arriving from China, yet its government has said that no new mutation has been found in recent arrivals".
(HANDLE).