Since the outbreak, the Communist Party’s vaunted return of 73,000 people has quickly become a hot topic on Weibo, attracting more than 20 million followers but only 300 comments. Critics say the Party has intimidated people into lambasting, shutting down many comments and deleting many negative ones.
On December 17, officials from the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign ministry announced that more than 73,000 compatriots had been repatriated from 92 countries since the outbreak began. A netizen mocked the Chinese authorities by asking how many years it would take them to return to China after about 10 million Chinese went abroad last year. Critics say the Communist Party has introduced a series of policies in the wake of the epidemic to restrict the return of Chinese stranded abroad, which is now even more difficult to get to and afford sky-high air fares.
Cui Aimin, director of the Department of Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a media briefing on consular affairs in 2020 that 14 chartered and temporary flights have been sent since the outbreak, bringing back 1,887 Hubei residents from Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and other countries, according to the Communist Party’s mouthpiece.
It also arranged 351 flights, bringing back more than 73,000 compatriots from 92 countries, including Italy, Britain, the United States, South Africa and Iran. Cui aimin also boasted that he had “set a new record in the history of New China”. “Wherever you go, the motherland is behind you!” .
The news quickly became the most searched item on Weibo that day, with more than 21.14 million people reading it, compared to just 460,000. But the number of comments is a paltry 371, and the party continues to be touted almost on one side.
In a tightly controlled world of the Internet, there is still a trickle of posts that the Communist Party wants to shut down for a short time, a sign of popular anger.
One netizen asked: “73,000 is that a lot… Not even a change.” “Huge country, 70,000?” “I don’t know what it means. There are about 5 million Chinese working and studying in the United States alone. In terms of China’s favorite KPI, this is basically a failure.”
“Cut it out,” said a teacher at A Jiangxi Foreign Language School. “Who are these people? Migrant workers in Africa are not even qualified to buy their own air tickets back home.”
One Internet technology blogger said, “I don’t know who’s coming back, but as far as I know, most of the people around me are coming back by themselves and have to bear the high cost of air tickets. Some don’t come back at all because of the few flights and expensive tickets. It’s the same as the A-share index pulling up and the individual stocks crashing.”
Even a netizen named Zhuge Liang XX sneered at the authorities by Posting an application question for the end of the fifth grade: “In 2020, due to the global Communist Party of China virus epidemic, overseas Chinese will be stranded here and unable to return home. It is known that about 10 million people will go abroad in 2019, and 73,000 will return in 2020. How many years will it take for all Chinese to come back? (10 points)”
Netizens responded with gallows humor: “Not surprisingly, 2156 will be back by the end of the year, happy!” “Two hundred years affirmation all be taken back, happy!” “The next century.”
“Another netizen responded,” Ha ha ha ha, that face is smacking!” Another said: ‘I heard that the ticket back is over 10 times more than that. Terrible!”
In fact, during the epidemic, there have been reports that Overseas Chinese have been unable to return home. In June of this year, nearly 1,000 Chinese sailors were stranded and exhausted on cruise ships in Britain and the Philippines, but they were unable to obtain state approval and were forced to send an open letter asking for help. News of this sort has been coming in all the time.
China’s political persecution, chairman of the alliance Liu Yin told the epoch, since the outbreak of the communist party of China take back news of 73000 people, more than two thousand ten thousand people read on the Internet the heat certainly cannot match only more than three hundred comments, and that the communist party of China is not only close a lot of comments, and certainly a lot of delete posts against them, leaving only as a content.
“They are so afraid of reviews because a lot of people hate and hate their policies. On the one hand, they do such a bad job, and on the other hand, they flatter themselves. They are sure to be lambasted and refuted by many people, so they just shut down the comments.”
Some netizens suggested that if the Communist Party dared to open up its comments, the official might have been drowned out by the spittle of netizens.
“Double Yin certification” makes it more difficult to go back to China
Under the new rule, which was implemented by the Communist Party of China on Nov 6, Chinese and foreign nationals traveling to China must complete nucleic acid + serum antibody test at local testing institutions within 48 hours before boarding the plane, and apply to local COMMUNIST Party embassies and consulates for green health code or health status declaration with “HS” logo.
During the epidemic, the Communist Party of China (CPC) adopted the policy of “five ones” for the return of overseas Chinese and the measures of “circuit breaker” for flights, all of which were criticized. The new rule will make it even more hopeless for stranded Chinese overseas to return home.
WeChat public account “Melbourne life” describes: “students, overseas Chinese want to return home will face an unprecedented ‘disaster’!”
A netizen from Sydney also sneered: “What an amazing country! It’s so hard to get home!”
“The policy is like telling Chinese overseas not to come back,” said another. And then give the domestic people a point to spray the Overseas Chinese: ‘It’s not the state that won’t let you back, it’s you who don’t do the test. ‘”
The comments were full of discontent and despair.
Chinese pay sky-high fares to return home
The much-criticised “five ones” policy, which imposed strict restrictions on inbound passenger traffic on March 29, says: “Each domestic airline can operate only one route to any country and each route must operate no more than one flight per week. Each foreign airline can only retain one route to China and operate no more than one flight per week “.
The “five policies” resulted in sky-high ticket prices, prompting comments on the airline’s official Weibo account to be shut down.
In May hundreds of Chinese nationals stranded in Nepal were shunned by Chinese communist Party embassies abroad and forced to pay up to seven times as much for air tickets. They suspect the embassy of offering high-priced tickets and officials taking kickbacks.
In the United States, another tragedy shocked the Internet in May this year. A Chinese girl living in Seattle spent 70,000 RMB to buy a high-priced one-way ticket back to China in June. After being scolded by her family, she couldn’t figure it out and committed suicide by taking medicine in Seattle.
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