Saturday, May 23, 2020

Millions of overseas Chinese find it difficult to return to PRC

Reporter : Zhong Jingming

Editor : Ming Xuan
Publisher : New Tang Dynasty Television
Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan
                                 / KUCINTA SETIA




The pandemic is not over. Millions of Chinese people studying, working and traveling abroad are in trouble. While other countries are actively evacuating their overseas nationals, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has used the "five ones" policy to significantly restrict international flight schedules. Air tickets have also risen to sky high prices, and many people are still waiting hopelessly.

On 13 May 2020, CAAC issued a notice requiring airlines to apply for advance flight plans for international flights one or two months in advance, and airlines that have not yet resumed flights cannot pre-sell international tickets.

The specific arrangement is to apply for a two-month advance flight plan from June to July in May, apply for an August plan in June, apply for a September plan in July, and so on for subsequent months. This means that the three-month "five ones" (i.e. one airline, one country, one route, one week, one flight) international flight policy has been implemented for at least until October.

According to a report by VOA on 23 May, an order on the official website of the US Department of Transportation just stated that since the covid outbreak, Chinese airline flights to the United States have not been interrupted. However, Delta Airlines and United Airlines' requests to resume flights on Chinese routes in June were rejected by CAAC. Therefore, the US also ordered four Chinese airlines to report flight plans to the relevant US authorities.

At about the same time, the land media "21 Finance" exclusively received news that CAAC had approved the United Airlines and Delta Airlines June resumption plans, but may still need to comply with the "five one" rules. However, the report has now been deleted, and the 404 message indicates that the page disappeared due to "uncontrollable reasons."

A professor visiting Harvard University in the United States told RFI that many Chinese citizens waiting to return home had waited for three months and hoped for such a notice to continue to implement the "five ones". The idea of ​​returning home failed again.

According to a netizen, according to the "five ones" calculation, only about 3,000 international students returned to China in April, and there are 400,000 Chinese students studying in the United States alone.

According to data released by the Ministry of Commerce of the Communist Party of China, as of the end of March, in addition to 1.43 million international students, at least 744,000 Chinese citizens live and work overseas, including those engaged in construction and trade, seafarers, migrant workers, advanced or visiting scholars and their families.

Due to the epidemic prevention in various countries, the world is shutting down for production and school. The schools for international students and trainees are closed. The source of income for migrant workers is lost. The official media of the Communist Party of China denounced the returning personnel as "poisoning thousands of miles", and tried to prevent them from returning to China on the grounds of domestic epidemic prevention. Occasionally, some international students are picked up and they publicize "the motherland actively withdraws overseas Chinese."

Earlier, a speech by a Chinese diplomat stationed in the Chinese Communist Party burst into the red network. In his speech, he discredited the Chinese Russians who wanted to return to PRC to "have a bad heart stubbornly." According to Radio Free Asia report, thousands of Chinese Russians have overcome many difficulties and arrived at the Sino-Russian border. However, because the CCP closed the port and stayed at the gate of the motherland, many people were forced to smuggle back to the country, and the CCP's public security officers searched everywhere.

There are also videos on the Internet showing that a large number of Chinese people went to the Chinese Embassy in Nepal, Pakistan and India to protest, demanding that the China Communist Party to allow them to return to PRC.

According to Radio Free Asia report, in Pakistan, Chinese who requested to return home were "played" back and forth by the Chinese Embassy and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A young girl committed suicide because of this despair. The Chinese embassy also placed her body in a hospital dedicated to the treatment of covid patients. It was used to intimidate the Chinese so that the local Chinese did not dare to go to the embassy to protest.

A local Chinese told "Look at China" that they saw the evacuation flights by various countries, while PRC airlines continued to transport medical supplies to Pakistan before returning home by air, and rather than picking up the Chinese who were stranded in Pakistan.

In addition to restricting the number of flights to PRC, the CCP mentioned sky-high prices for even those limited flights, which made many overseas Chinese with poor economic conditions daunted.

Netease has an article with the signature "House of Aviation Qiao Shanxun" that according to the "market price" set by Chinese airlines, the price of evacuation flights is about 2.75 times that of the United States on average, which is the most expensive in the world and most people cannot bear the costs. There are even sky-high air tickets above 100,000 RMB.

On the official website of CAAC, there was once a curse. The civil aviation network subsequently closed the comment. Some netizens said that it is useless to scold CAAC. The "five ones" cannot be decided by CAAC.

Because the CCP tried to prevent overseas Chinese from returning to China, many overseas "little pinks" who had previously "refueled" to suppress Hong Kong and the CCP's anti-epidemic were disappointed. An international student left a message on the website of the Civil Aviation Administration, "After this time, how many international students were chilled? How many international students will shake their hearts of returning home to serve the motherland?"


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