At the moment when international relations are complicated and changeable, there are always some incredible "proposals" coming up.

According to Reuters and the U.S. House of Representatives website, on this day, September 18, local time, the President of the Special Committee on China in the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican lawmaker John Mueller, came up with an unreasonable idea.

He cried out to the Trump administration, claiming that China would limit or even suspend Chinese airlines¡¯ landing rights in the United States and its allies if it did not promise US requirements on rare earth supplies.

That is to say, if China does not promise to provide rare earths to the United States, it will not let Chinese planes land. It can also be seen that the "anxiety" of the United States about rare earths is indeed very serious.

In addition, he also put forward two other additional "suggestions": First, review the export control policy for the sale of commercial aircraft, parts and maintenance services to China; The second is to coordinate with the main allies of the United States to jointly restrict foreign investment in China's aviation sector.

In this regard, Mr. Mueller declared that these measures are intended to send a "clear message" to Beijing and can release a "clear signal" to China.

He attempted to force China to make concessions on the supply of rare earth in a way that restricted aviation-related exports, essentially by using civil cooperation as a code to threaten China to compromise.

After all, he himself admitted that he dreamed of using this to enhance the "resilience" and "unity" of the U.S. alliance and gain so-called "real bargaining chips" on the China issue.

In fact, this American senator had always loved to hype with various "anti-Chinese" topics.

His special committee on China has done little good since it was established and has armed a bunch of topics to blackmail China.

As early as July this year, Mullenar targeted Chinese students.

He specifically wrote a letter to pressure seven U.S. universities, forcing these schools to re-assess and cooperate with the Chinese National Study Fund Management Commission, and even demanded that they simply terminate the cooperation, apparently wanting to hinder the normal education exchange between China and the United States.

At that time, on the subject of the chip, he was also uninterrupted.

At the time when the Trump administration intended to resume NVIDIA's export of H20 chips to China, Mueller jumped out against it, and also promptly declared that if it did, China's military strength and competitiveness in the field of AI would be improved.

But some American companies cannot lose the big market of China.

Talking about threatening China with the right to land this flight is also a "dirty game."

In recent years, the number of flights between China and the United States has been fluctuating due to various factors.

In 2020, influenced by the new coronavirus and U.S. Western sanctions on Russia, China-U.S. flights were largely cut, and then slowly increased.

It is worth mentioning that last year, several major U.S. airlines and trade unions in the aviation industry moved their hands, they ran to "lobby" the U.S. government, hard to get the government to stop the approval of new Sino-U.S. flights.

At that time, the reason they came up with was "China's anti-competitive policy", which sounded grandiose and was nothing more than an excuse.

On Wednesday, however, the U.S. Department of Transportation gave United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines a green light to extend their flight permits to China for another six months.

But the license is not small, the three airlines combined can only fly 48 flights per week to China, compared with the previous 119 flights, not one and a half stars.

Of course, the number of flights flying by Chinese airlines to the United States is also in line with this figure, which is a delicate balance.

It can only be said that if you really listen to the words of Mueller and limit Chinese flights to land, the day of the United States itself will not be too good.

In short, Mueller¡¯s proposal is a tragedy, not only will not solve the U.S. trouble in the rare earth issue, but will also bring further shocks to the U.S. own aviation, tourism and other industries, and undermine China-U.S. relations that are not easy to ease.