China-U.S. Line China flights suddenly and bizarrely canceled one after another
Recently there has been news of successive cancellations of flights by China Southern Airlines, Air China, Xiamen Airlines and China Eastern Airlines during February to March. The reasons for the cancellations are unclear, and based on the Time trend of their cancellations, the possibility of meltdowns is initially ruled out. The airlines, for their part, advised passengers that the official website flight status or notification would prevail.
World News reported that since the realization of the reciprocal eight flights a week policy between China and the U.S., Chinese airlines have been flying flights between China and the U.S. in a relatively stable manner. However, according to the website of China Southern Airlines, flight CZ328 from Los Angeles to Guangzhou on Feb. 12 (the first day of the New Year) has been canceled. Meanwhile, Xiamen Airlines MF830 from Los Angeles to Xiamen was cancelled on February 14, and China Eastern Airlines MU588 from New York to Shanghai was cancelled on February 22 and March 24. Air China cancelled flights from Los Angeles to Shenzhen on CA770 on March 2 and March 30.
For the reason of cancellation, the airlines said they did not know, Air China’s official statement is due to public safety (Epidemic) reasons, affected passengers can log on to the official website, or App to change the ticket waitlist. When the flight has spare seats, passengers will be notified as soon as possible to change their tickets, and they can also contact the original ticketing channel for refunds, which are free of refund fees.
Selina, the airline operator, said that at the beginning of the cancellation of China Southern Airlines, said that it was because of the New Year less people, and then said that it was not. Guests called over to ask, the airline said it was a meltdown, in the end what the reason for the cancellation of flights, no one knows, only by blind guess.
Experts: Biden‘s first month in office U.S.-China relations China-U.S. Cold War?
Writing in Radio Free Asia, U.S. political and economic scholar Cheng Xiaonong said that the first round of U.S.-China diplomacy after Biden took office, the Chinese Communist Party failed to get its way. The Chinese Communist Party had forcefully demanded that the United States fully restore the kind of bilateral relations that existed before the U.S.-China Cold War, in an aggressive and aggressive manner. But the Biden Administration did not respond, and the Beijing authorities had to acquiesce to the reality that U.S.-China relations are not what they used to be.
After Biden took office, the Chinese Communist Party became even more anxious about the U.S.-China relationship. It is eager to improve U.S.-China relations economically and diplomatically, and has frequently shouted at the United States to that end. Biden’s foreign policy speech on February 4, in which he positioned the CCP as “the most serious competitor,” appears to be a step back from Trump‘s positioning of U.S.-China relations in terms of a full-scale confrontation with the CCP. Biden did not set out a clear and specific strategy for dealing with the CCP, but only indicated a general direction.
After Biden took office, he put a hold on restricting investment in Chinese Communist Party military companies, while shelving Trump’s decision to force the sale of Jitterbug to a U.S. company, and also rescinding Trump’s decree on transparency in the background relationship with the CCP’s Confucius Institute, and remaining business as usual in terms of Trump’s other policies toward China.
On Feb. 10, Biden and Xi spoke by phone. From the official release of the call between the two countries, it appears that apart from polite words, both sides remain largely on their own.
One of the key considerations for the Biden administration’s insistence on continuing to engage the Chinese Communist Party is that there is no peace in the Pacific.
Recently, the pace of the Chinese military threat against the United States has been accelerating. The Communist Party originally planned to build 10 aircraft carriers to form a massive carrier fleet in order to seize control of the Pacific Ocean. However, due to the limitations of the shipbuilding project and the technical level of the equipment and aircraft on board, the CCP has realized that its carrier fleet cannot exert military pressure on the United States in the near future. Since last year, the CCP has quietly changed its naval strategy from relying primarily on aircraft carrier formations to relying primarily on a nuclear submarine fleet; more importantly, the CCP has also quietly changed its nuclear warfare strategy from a reactive nuclear counterattack during the Cold War era of the U.S. and the Soviet Union to an active nuclear attack.
While the Chinese Communist Party was previously imagined to be a cuddly panda, a series of military threats against the United States since last year have shown that this “panda” is not only flailing and clawing, but also holding a sharp edge and pressing forward, more like a tiger in a panda’s skin.
The Chinese Communist Party continues to exert military and diplomatic pressure on the United States because it is well aware that the economic goals it pursues and its hegemony over international waters for military purposes run counter to international economic rules and the international law of the sea, and that it cannot achieve them through fully cooperative diplomatic negotiations between the two sides. U.S.-China diplomacy will not be the only means of resolving the confrontation between the two countries in the future, and U.S. military defenses have already begun and will gradually unfold.
The U.S.-China Cold War was ignited by the Chinese Communist Party last year, and the Trump Administration is determined to strike back forcefully in the final year of his term. Going forward, the U.S.-China Cold War will remain the fundamental aspect of U.S.-China relations. The U.S., in the midst of the Cold War, naturally cannot pursue a strategy of a strong enemy and a weak self. Therefore, it will be difficult for the U.S.-China economic relationship to break away from the established pattern of the U.S.-China Cold War in the future, and it will not be able to return to the direction expected by the Chinese Communist Party. The U.S. military is on high alert in the face of the Communist forces that provoked the Cold War between China and the United States.
Canada‘s immigration ministry has just granted Amnesty to International Students who have been given PR status
Canada’s “Super Life” network reported that on February 13, 2021, the second day of the Lunar New Year (Saturday), the Canadian Immigration Department officially announced the invitation of the 176th round of fast-track EE applicants, inviting 27,300 fast-track applicants in the Canadian Experience Class CEC category, with a lottery score of 75 points!
At the beginning of the Year of the Ox, it’s really a “bull” turn! Is there an illusion of New Year’s amnesty, and an illusion of emptying the shopping cart for the New Year!
If it is not a technical problem, the operation of this wave of Chinese New Year gifts is really powerful!
The Canadian government has just said that it will send help to international students, and the good news came on the 13th~~
The circle of friends directly exploded! This is the Immigration Department’s version of All in?
The forum is also full of good news.
Many people can not even believe that this is true: not the United Kingdom, this country into the immigration of Hong Kong people.
Not the United Kingdom, this country has become the first choice of Hong Kong people immigrants
In response to the political tightening of control by the Beijing authorities after the implementation of Hong Kong’s national security law, Canada’s recently launched new immigration policy has been welcomed by the local Hong Kong community. Data shows that the number of Hong Kong applicants for Canadian visas has increased by 20% in the past year. Canada has become the preferred country for Hong Kong people to move to.
Radio Free Asia reports that Immigration Canada data shows that visa applications from Hong Kong increased by more than 20 percent to 10,819 in 2020. For many Hong Kong people, Canada is the top choice in mind over the UK if they can afford to leave.
The UK’s new BNO passport system has been accepting applications since February 4. Eligible Hong Kong people and dependents can apply for visas to live and work in the UK for up to five years, and then apply for settled status when they have completed five years.
Starting February 8, college graduates who have completed a post-secondary program in Hong Kong within the last five years or who hold foreign equivalent qualifications may also apply for a three-year work visa to move to Canada. In addition, Hong Kong residents with one or more years of Canadian work experience and those who have completed a post-secondary program in Canada can apply directly to become permanent residents.
Assist Hong Kong people to apply for asylum in Canada, “New Hong Kong Cultural Association” said Uncle Hung, the British and Canadian systems have their advantages, but to immigrate to the United Kingdom pocket needs more assets: “You need to have some financial strength to get the British identity, because the application to the United Kingdom has been more expensive than Canada is three times more expensive, and during the period of living and working in the UK is not entitled to social benefits. But not in Canada, once you get a visa to enter Canada, you are entitled to health care and other benefits, and there is less financial pressure.”
Emma Chan, who has organized several events in support of democracy in Hong Kong, said that compared to the UK, Canada’s economic conditions, educational environment, and cultural inclusiveness will make Hong Kong people feel more comfortable, “The UK is not the first choice for Hong Kong, they think it is easier to find a job in Canada, and the UK discriminates more heavily against people from other places, but Canada is a pluralistic country with a higher acceptance level is higher.”
Japanese media: New British-Japanese alliance takes shape to block CCP from joining CPTPP
As relations between the Biden administration and Beijing are easing, the Anti-Communist focus seems to be shifting to the United Kingdom, a traditional European power. Earlier this month, Britain applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). According to an article in The Japanese media, a new alliance between Britain and Japan has been formed to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from joining the CPTPP.
According to an analysis by senior editor Katsuji Nakazawa published in the Nikkei Asian Review on Friday (12), Chinese communist diplomats have found that post-Brexit policies could hinder Beijing’s Asia-Pacific strategy. And the Chinese Communist Party’s statement last November that it would actively consider joining the CPTPP now looks likely to be blocked by Britain and Japan.
The article quotes foreign policy experts as saying that the UK’s application to join the CPTPP would be a blow to Beijing, while Japan is welcoming the UK’s application with open arms. If recognized, the UK would be the first new member of the CPTPP since it came into effect in 2018.
According to the article, the relationship between Britain and Japan is increasingly like a new “quasi-alliance”, which is complementary to the “Japan-US alliance”. The UK is also likely to join a “quadrilateral security dialogue” between the US, Japan, India and Australia to counter the maritime expansion of the Chinese Communist Party.
The “super Earth” of 10 billion years old appears scientists: there may have been life
A recent study shows that a 10-billion-year-old “super-Earth” has been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, and scientists believe it is likely that life has appeared on the rocky planet.
In a new study presented at the 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” that is about 10 billion years old. The planet, TOI-561b, is about 280 light-years from Earth in the southern sky in the constellation Sextans, and is 1.45 times the size and three times the mass of Earth.
Its host star, TOI-561, an orange dwarf, is also about 10 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known stars in our galaxy.
Scientists believe that the Milky Way is about 12 billion years old, and that this “super-Earth” was created almost at the beginning of the galaxy’s existence.
TOI-561b is one of the oldest rocky planets ever discovered,” said study leader Lauren Weiss, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hawaii. Its existence suggests that the universe has been continuously producing rocky planets since its inception 14 billion years ago.”
The researchers describe most galactic spiral galaxies similar to the Milky Way as having two disks: a thin disk region and a thick disk region. The stars in the thick disk region are relatively older, meaning that the rocky planets emerged and began evolving more than 10 billion years ago when the universe was born.
Scientists believe it is likely that there was life on this planet billions of years ago.
This suggests that rocky planets have been produced over the past 10 billion years, and even over the course of the galaxy’s entire 12-billion-year history,” Weiss said. Imagine what kind of history there is on top of rocky planets that are 10 billion years old. I’d love to know.”
Weiss is responsible for the study, which will be published in the February issue of The Astronomical Journal.
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