From March 3, 2020, our embassy in Iran began to organize chartered flights to pick up Chinese and international students stranded in Iran, not to pick up Chinese nationals. Firstly, both Chinese and international students are compatriots and evacuation of compatriots in times of emergencies is an international practice, not to mention a world power like us; secondly, at that time, the epidemic of New Crown Pneumonia in the whole world was not serious, and there were not many Chinese and international students in Iran, so our country had the ability to pick up some of our compatriots in difficulty; thirdly, even now, in the background of not being able to pick up a large number of Chinese and international students, our country Thirdly, even now, when it is not possible to bring back a large number of overseas Chinese and foreign students, we are still trying our best to bring back some of them who are in difficulties.
First, it is an international practice to charter flights to evacuate overseas Chinese in times of crisis, and our country often organizes charter flights to evacuate overseas Chinese. The fiery movie Operation Red Sea in the Spring Festival of 2018 was actually created against the backdrop of our country's evacuation of overseas Chinese in Yemen.In the summer of 2018, when Typhoon Tammy hit Japan, our country also organized chartered flights to evacuate compatriots stranded in Osaka. What's more, Chinese and international students in Iran also used to donate money and goods after the outbreak of New Crown Pneumonia in our country. However, it is important to understand that we withdrew our overseas Chinese and foreign students, but we did not charter a plane to pick up the Chinese. The Chinese are nationals of a foreign country and, strictly speaking, are no longer nationals of our country. Another point is that as early as February 2, 2020, Iran announced that it had cut off flights with our country, so Chinese nationals and international students could not return to their home countries through normal channels, and could only be picked up by chartered flights.
China's aid to Iran's medical supplies
Secondly, at that time, the global outbreak of new coronary pneumonia was not serious enough to justify the ability to evacuate the Chinese nationals in chartered flights targeting one country, Iran, alone. On March 3, only Iran and South Korea were among the countries with a serious epidemic of new crown pneumonia, and Europe and the United States hadn't taken the epidemic of new crown pneumonia seriously. At that time, South Korea did not cut off flights with our country, and overseas Chinese and foreign students in South Korea could return to their home countries on their own. At that time, the number of confirmed cases of C.pneumonia in Iran had reached 2,335, with 77 deaths, and most of the Chinese and international students wanted to go back to their home countries. As a matter of fact, the number of Chinese and international students in Iran was at the level of thousands, and our country had the ability to charter a plane to bring them back.
So, if we are able to charter a plane to bring back the overseas Chinese and international students in Iran, why are netizens quarreling about whether to bring back the young British students? The situation now means different, more than 200 countries around the world have seen an epidemic of New Crown Pneumonia, the country is no longer able to pick up all the international students and overseas Chinese who want to come back. In the UK alone, the number of international students is as high as 95,000, and the number of overseas Chinese is more than 300,000 or more.
Thirdly, the country is doing its best to bring back international students and protect their health. It is very unrealistic to bring back all 15,000 students in the UK, but we are prepared to bring back some of those who are in distress. 9:30am on April 2, 2020, the first chartered plane has taken off, and will bring back 188 students who are stranded in the UK. In addition, China has already distributed a cumulative total of 500,000 international student groups through its embassies in ? Health Packs
Health kits for international students
There is nothing wrong with sending chartered flights to bring back some of the international students and overseas Chinese who have been stranded in the country on the premise that there will be no resurgence of the epidemic at home. But the country can't do it all, and many parents of foreign students don't need to be morally abducted.