If one story sums up the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and the Biden Administration, this is it:

U.S. diplomats in China were subjected to anal swab tests for Covid-19, a Department of State spokesperson confirmed Thursday, adding that a protest had been lodged with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The United States had received assurances from China that the tests were done in error and that diplomatic personnel were exempt from this specific testing requirement, the spokesperson said.

The point has been made; making it a permanent policy would be unnecessarily messy.

On a tip from Jester.