Originally Posted by
t325
They're happy for now, but once they see the western world has moved on and folks can freely travel abroad and return home without a lengthy and expensive quarantine, their attitudes might change. Surely they want to be able to travel abroad for vacation or to visit family and friends. And they want family and friends living abroad to be able to visit them.
China's gonna China, but Japan and Taiwan are democracies. The people living there might eventually get fed up with the restrictions and make their opinions known in the voting booth if the policies don't change.
Only 23% of Japanese hold passports, so I don't think Japanese government will loosen up travel restrictions just to satisfy the needs of a few. For Taiwan, I don't think any of the major political parties want to open up borders and people seems to be happy with the current state of mostly free of COVID. Both economies are running just fine without foreign tourists and businessmen.