Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye...
by freddie_mercury on Sunday November 01, 2020 @08:35PM
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> But the borders vietnam shares with those countries are hard borders. You need a visa and pass a government controlled checkpoint when you enter.
As someone who lives in Vietnam, I think your conception of the hardness of the borders is mistaken. The land border with Vietnam-China is 1,300 kilometers long. That's longer than Germany's combined border with the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
"The 1,400km border between Vietnam and China is extremely porous, with a complicated geography characterised by mountains and rivers – especially in the north – that makes it difficult to monitor cross-border traffic, according to Mimi Vu, an independent Vietnamese-American anti-trafficking expert based in Saigon."
> Europe (mainland) has no internal borders. There are no checkpoints, customs agents or chokepoints between countries.
Yes it does. Germany closed its borders on March 16.
As someone who lives in Vietnam, I think your conception of the hardness of the borders is mistaken. The land border with Vietnam-China is 1,300 kilometers long. That's longer than Germany's combined border with the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
"The 1,400km border between Vietnam and China is extremely porous, with a complicated geography characterised by mountains and rivers – especially in the north – that makes it difficult to monitor cross-border traffic, according to Mimi Vu, an independent Vietnamese-American anti-trafficking expert based in Saigon."
> Europe (mainland) has no internal borders. There are no checkpoints, customs agents or chokepoints between countries.
Yes it does. Germany closed its borders on March 16.
https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/germany-introduces-bor...
France, Spain, and Italy also closed their borders. Something like a dozen countries in the EU closed their borders.