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Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

China also cunningly not threatening to annex its closest allies.

Eh. It sucks to be a Central Asian diplomat, especially with China cleansing your co-ethnics across the border. Maybe that's not what you meant by "closest allies." But if the US were disappearing Canadians inside US borders as a matter of policy, the threat to sovereignty would already be there.

Yeah, definitely wasn't meant to be "China are lovely". Maybe "China are not overtly threatening to annex their main sources of tourism"?

Why is anyone surprised? I’ll be more surprised if anyone wants to visit ever again! I won’t that’s for sure

Semafor is a right wing access rag so they have to behave like Candide annihilating any pretense of objectivity or credibility They’re just the amplified human centipede shit

Some won’t visit the US because of Trump, but others will visit China that puts political prisoners in jail, etc.

Dude, people are afraid for *their own safety* if they were to visit the US, because of trump. It's not hypocrisy to avoid a country whose federal government just murdered a tourist in Texas and will not face any accountability for it.

The USA just outright murders protestors in the street. I don’t think you’re scoring points against China here.

Trump is doing his best to put his political opponents in jail, just give him a bit more time.

Yeah, but I think the Chinese government is better at it.

Some?

Canada and the EU are planning to do the same thing. America First = America Alone.

Semafor is cleaning up Axios’ mildly censorious reporting of Trump failure. Axios reported it was “MOSTLY self-inflicted” - Semafor changed this to a “partly self inflicted”. It is true that “mostly” is also “partly” but it is sad that Semafor couldn’t be as hard on Trump as Trump-fawning AXIOS.

Who could have foreseen tourism would be dampened by random detentions of visitors from abroad, thought-policing foreign guests’ phones and an underlying culture of casual violence with guns permitted every-damn-where? I mean, who’da thunk?