We've banned this account for doing nationalistic flamewar on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Those international flights were allowed to let countries evacuate their own citizens out. If they were banned, you would be making the exact same complaint but reversed: "China held other countries' citizens hostage in Wuhan." Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

China didn’t let taiwanese citizens leave Wuhan then. What’s the excuse there?

Misinformation. There were still Wuhan tourists as late as 1/28

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7937943/amp/Air-pas...

You're not even getting the direction right now. This article is about Chinese citizens trying to return to China, not leaving it.

We've banned this account for doing nationalistic flamewar on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html