[MisterTea]

> Curious what led to the decision to use "burner" devices,

When visiting you are required to install a tracking app. At that point your phone is considered compromised. So you bring a burner that gets infected instead and you toss afterwards.

[1659447091]

> When visiting you are required to install a tracking app

Do you have details on this? I visited a little before Covid went down and that was not the case at the time. Been wanting to go back before my visa expires

[olalonde]

Not sure where you got that information from but that's wrong. You're not required to install any app.

[MisterTea]

I spoke to someone who traveled there post COVID in 2022. They started they had to install a tracker app, perhaps COVID tracking? Perhaps I am misremembering something.

[olalonde]

At one point, there was a WeChat mini-app with a health-related form that needed to be filled out. However, a paper version was also available, and it's no longer required.

[p_j_w]

I got back from China earlier this month. I was never required to install any sort of app.