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Not sure why China allows the US to operate 12 weekly flights but only get 8 weekly flights in return. However, it is ridiculous for the US to forbid China airlines from flying through Russian airspace especially India, UAE and Singapore airlines weren't require to do so.
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A dispute over airline routes between the US and China has emerged as a further sticking point in efforts to improve relations between the countries after Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreed stabilising ties was necessary in November. The US has offered to grant Chinese airlines the same number of weekly flights between both countries as American carriers — but only if they agree not to fly over Russia, according to six people familiar with the talks. Moscow banned US carriers from flying over the country after Washington prohibited Russian airlines from flying to the US in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Chinese airlines are not banned from Russian airspace. US carriers have 12 weekly flights to China, while Chinese airlines have eight to the US. The American carriers face higher fuel costs than their Chinese rivals whose routes over Russia to the US are much shorter. US airlines have lobbied the Biden administration not to grant China more flights because of the cost gap.

The shorter route over Russia also allows Chinese carriers the advantage of flying directly to the US east coast. One Chinese embassy official said Beijing’s proposal to equalise weekly flight numbers — to give both sides 12 — was “quite reasonable”. He blamed Washington for the stalemate in the negotiations, saying China did not accept that its carriers should have to avoid flying over Russia. “The slow progress at the moment is not what we want to see. Frankly speaking, the responsibility lies with the US side,” the official said. “An issue between the US and Russia is not one between the US and China, even less should it be used as a basis for demanding the so-called ‘reciprocity’.”

The Chinese diplomat added that Xi and Biden had agreed on the need for more people-to-people exchanges between the countries when the leaders met at the G20 summit in Bali in November and stressed that more flights were needed to meet that goal. But US carriers, with the support of some members of Congress, want the Biden administration to resist granting the Chinese airlines more flights. American Airlines chief Robert Isom this week told CNBC there could not be an “unlevel playing field”. “We have to have the ability to fly the same lengths and not burn more fuel and add time on,” he said. But he added that he was hopeful Beijing and Washington would find a solution given there was a “lot of demand”.

The National Security Council and Department of State declined to comment on the status of the US-China negotiations. But an NSC spokesperson said they were “aware” of the concerns from the US airlines. “It cannot be business as usual with Russia in the face of Russia’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine,” the NSC spokesperson said. The dispute is the latest thorn in the side of US-China relations, which have hit their worst state since the nations normalised ties in 1979. After Bali, US secretary of state Antony Blinken was scheduled to fly to Beijing, but he cancelled his trip after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over the US. The Chinese official said another reason not to accept the US condition about circumventing Russia was that airlines from other countries, such as India and the UAE, flew over Russia without facing repercussions in the US.

“We hope the US side can refrain from politicising the issue and consult with us for a proper solution,” he said. One American airline executive said US carriers were also pushing back because Chinese carriers cared more about the prestige of multiple flights than having full planes. He said that put US carriers at a disadvantage since they wanted to operate fewer, but fuller, flights to ensure profitably. China wants to increase the number of business visitors as it tries to woo investment from foreign companies after ending its zero-Covid policy. Beijing ultimately wants to see a big increase in the number of flights between the countries but has proposed an increase of four for now.

Recommended US-China relations US Chamber of Commerce warns of rising risk of doing business in China Suzanne Clark speaks at an event Steve Saxon, head of the Asia travel practice at McKinsey, suggested that one reason US carriers resisted an overall rise in their own flights to China was that they were not suffering from the relatively low number. “US carriers . . . are short on capacity because of a lack of aircraft and pilots, and are fully deployed on profitable domestic and transatlantic routes,” said Saxon, adding that South Korean and Japanese carriers were winning from the US-China impasse. Underscoring the slow uptick in flights between the countries, the number of scheduled flights from China to the US in March was only 6 per cent of the level in March 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to aviation data and advisory provider Ishka Global. In comparison, flights from China to Europe recovered to 23 per cent of their March 2019 level. A
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Simple solution, sanction the dumb airline rats doing the lobbying. They want to play their advantage of being in a corrupt shithole that does whatever they say for money to strong arm China, well China can hit them back.
 
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Anglo American society is dysfunctional because they perceive all relationships in a zero sum sense, a master slave relationship.
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No, I agree with this that there is a zero sum game between China and the US. You can do things to benefit your enemy if your own benefit is greater; that is for sure but be very careful when harming yourself to bring greater harm to your enemy as there are more forces than just him in the world and also, it's easier playing defense than offense so you might end up harming yourself without harming the enemy. The US often forgets these things when attacking China, causing immense self-harm instead. But those things said, it is a zero sum game for the win; China and the US will never be two tigers that happily co-rule the mountain of the world.
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This is why Asian women in Western societies are considered consolation prizes and safety nets for otherwise involuntary celibates in the West. Status wise, a blonde haired blue eyed slim caucasoid female is considered higher than an Asian female, even if she is Zhang Ziyi.
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That's absolutely not true. If anything, Asian women are fetishized in the US and a lot of Americans take having an Asian girlfriend/wife as a much-needed trophy (over having conquered the orient or something) for men who feel like they need to conquer something just once in their lives while marrying another white girl is considered the bland vanilla option. Now, there are those Neo-Nazis who would never marry a non-Caucasian woman but to be honest, on that pont and that point alone, I can sympathize because I would never marry a non-Asian woman. To me, being Chinese is the most glorious thing to be born into and I don't want any part of my family, especially not my children, to depart from it.
 
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Neighbor Kills 5 People, Including 8-Year-Old, Inside Texas Home: Police​


AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man went next door with a rifle and began shooting his neighbors, killing an 8-year-old and four others inside the house, after the family asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because they were trying to sleep, authorities said Saturday.

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said authorities were still searching for the 39-year-old suspect following the overnight shooting in the town of Cleveland, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Houston. He said the suspect, whom he did not identify, used an AR-style rifle in the shooting.

“Everyone that was shot was shot from the neck up, almost execution-style,” Capers said during a news conference at the scene.

Capers said there were 10 people in the house and that no one else was injured. He said two of the victims, all believed to be from Honduras, were found laying over two children inside.

“The Honduran ladies that were laying over these children were doing it in such an effort as to protect the child,” according to Capers, who said a total of three blood-covered children were found in the home but were determined to be uninjured after being taken to a hospital.

Capers said two other people were examined at the scene and released.

The confrontation followed family members walking up to the fence and asking the suspect to stop shooting rounds, Capers said. The suspect responded by telling them that it was his property, according to Capers, and that one person in the house got a video of the suspect walking up to the front door with the rifle.

Three of the victims were women and one was a man. Their names were not released. Capers said the victims were between the ages of 8 and about 40 years old.

Authorities have previously been to the suspect’s home, according to Capers. “Deputies have come over and spoke with him about him shooting his gun in the yard,” he said.

Capers said some of those in the house had just moved from Houston earlier in the week, but he did not know whether they were planning to stay there.

The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023. The violence is sparked by a range of motives: murder-suicides and domestic violence; gang retaliation; school shootings and workplace vendettas. All have taken the lives of four or more people at once since Jan. 1.

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