Allegations of corruption and shoddy construction at Fujian’s Tongan power project take centerstage as part of Beijing’s scripted political theater.
Landslide topples China’s Hongqi Bridge
Impoundment of world’s future tallest dam suspected as trigger.
China’s new Hongqi Bridge collapses—could California’s Chinese bridge be far behind?
Experts testified that the Chinese steel in the Bay Bridge was too brittle.
The lesson of Hongqi Grand Bridge
The partial collapse of a new bridge in China’s Sichuan province this week riveted a global audience with the spectacle of disaster. The greater drama is China’s breakneck hydropower expansion.
Beijing officials blame emergency planning failures on climate change
Authorities cower behind the scapegoat of “climate” in the wake of devastating floods that left elderly to perish.
Wang Weiluo on the July flood discharge from Beijing’s reservoirs
Politically driven overfilling, structural flaws, and emergency discharges at several of the city’s reservoirs point to systemic failures in prioritizing water storage capacity over flood safety, says expert.
17 major dams in Beijing release water simultaneously, causing river breaches and leaving hundreds missing
Beijing’s July floods expose systemic failures in flood management and infrastructure prioritization.
China’s new “world’s largest” hydropower project commences construction
As China’s Yarlung Zangbo megadam on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau breaks ground, critics question Beijing’s dangerous penchant for megadams for their own sake.
China to construct second ship lock at Three Gorges Dam amid growing navigation crisis
Decades-old infrastructure strains under demand. Experts warn new fixes won’t address systemic flaws.
The CCP weaponizes Nature to mislead scientific community
A CCP-affiliated study touts China’s proposed transboundary Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project as climate-resilient, but critics decry claims as biased propaganda that ignores grave issues and violations.
A case of “extreme nationalism”
China’s planned transboundary Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in occupied Tibet is less about energy demand and conservation and more a case of “extreme nationalism,” a new report argues.
Chinese hydropower: damning Tibet’s culture, community and environment
An in-depth look at the scope and scale of China’s single-minded push for ever more dams in Tibet.
World’s largest dam to be built by China raises concerns in India, Bangladesh
China’s decision to build the world’s largest hydropower dam in a seismically active region on a river that flows into India and Bangladesh sparks concerns in both countries.
How China is expanding global influence via debt trap diplomacy
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has resulted in several unsustainable debt-for-infrastructure deals in South Asia and Europe, which further Beijing’s geostrategic ambitions.
Tibet earthquake raises a big question mark on China’s Yarlung Tsangpo super dam project
Why construct the world’s biggest dam in a seismically vulnerable region that doesn’t even require the energy it will generate?
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