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Starting next month, foreign visitors won't need to quarantine and China's citizens may

once again go abroad.

Why change this now with Beijing's hospitals and medical services overwhelmed?

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China is reopened to the rest of the world after nearly three years of close borders.

It just announced that starting in January, it will no longer require hotel quarantines

for inbound travelers.

The U.S.

return comes as the country battles an enormous wave of COVID infections nationwide, a surge

that has overwhelmed hospitals and ambulance service even in the capital of Beijing.

It's now MPR Emily Fang.

Emily, why this sudden change?

I remember earlier this year, you were reporting that China was still requiring two weeks of

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