As tensions between the US and China continue to escalate, President Donald Trump decided to ban all passenger planes from China to land in America.

As of June 16, 2020, the US Department of Transportation announced that all Chinese passenger planes should be barred to enter the country. The list includes China Southern Airlines Co, Hainan Airlines Holding Co, Sichuan Airlines Co, Xiamen Airlines Co, Air China, and China Eastern Airlines Corp.

Despite the strict travel restriction, airline companies can still ferry passengers between China and the US. The decision was a result of Beijing’s failure to comply with the existing agreements on flights.

On the other hand, two American flight carriers, Delta and United have both requested to resume their cargo flights to China. In fact, Delta had asked for permission to have a daily flight to Shanghai airport, from Detroit, and Ohio. On Wednesday. Delta released a statement of support to the administration, “we support and appreciate the US government’s actions to enforce our rights and ensure fairness.” Moreover, United Airlines also asked to have regular flights from San Francisco to Beijing and looked forward to continuing their flights “when the regulatory environment allows us to do so.”

Currently, the communist country is still unable to provide a date that would allow US carriers to schedule flights. The department also responded to China’s airline policy, “We will allow Chinese carriers to operate the same number of scheduled passenger flights as the Chinese government allows ours.” In a separate statement, the department also claimed that that the ban also includes charter flights to “further the advantage” of US carriers. The administration also warned Chinese airline charter flights not to expect any “approvals.”

As early as January 31, Trump had already barred non-US citizens who had a travel history to China from entering the country due to increasing concerns over the deadly Chinese virus. By February, most US passenger flights also made a deliberate decision to stop flights to China.

China has yet to respond with the new airline policies.

While the communist regime has become increasingly critical with the Trump administration, it changed its tune on Wednesday, as Global Times, the regime’s propaganda arm took a friendlier approach on the White House. In an op-ed by Mario Cavolo, the author criticized the demonstrators who have looted local businesses and burned down buildings.

Cavolo wrote that while he empathized with the injustice, citing that people are “rightfully aggrieved with yet another black man senselessly murdered in cold blood,” he believed that Trump made the right decision to reinforce the value of national sovereignty and strong borders. “President Trump is correct: that two wrongs don’t make a right, that individual responsibility to society is part of your civic duty as a citizen no matter what,” Cavolo stated.