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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