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Depends where you're from. A lot of countries even in the west have visa free holiday travel with China now.
yes that's fair. I was basing this off my experience in US around 2019. I think this may also be an artificial thing because the process requires going to an embassy with your passport and the closest embassy for me was in CA so I had to send a third party service my passport and have them visit. The fee for a 2 week turnaround was paid to the company and was ≈$1500. I have no idea if any of that is actually part of the visa process or merely so they can gouge you if you don't have 12 weeks to wait, which might also be an artificial time so that they can charge you.