Despite the success of Beijing’s “blue sky” energy policy, the forced coal-to-gas/electric program has created a significant humanitarian and economic crisis in the rural areas surrounding the capital.
The bluer the sky, the colder the homes
How Beijing’s double standards are shaping world order
As China edges toward becoming the world’s largest economy, its insistence on being treated as a developing nation becomes increasingly untenable.
China’s hidden grip on America’s power grid
A new report reveals that nearly half of all solar inverters and battery energy storage systems imported into the U.S. from 2015–2024 came from high-risk Chinese manufacturers.
Maduro, Venezuela, the U.S.—and the oil shock China can’t price in
Maduro’s capture triggers heavy sour crude squeeze as Caribbean tanker routes shift and China’s $17-19B oil-backed loans hang in balance.
Climate lawsuits against U.S. energy giants: a strategic boon for China
Activist-driven litigation threatens to undermine American energy independence while bolstering China’s dominance in green technologies.
Nepal charges Chinese state firm and 55 officials with corruption
Nepal’s anti-graft watchdog says state-owned China CAMC Engineering, in tandem with Nepali officials, colluded to inflate the costs of a Belt and Road airport project.
China’s $1B green “priority” dam rocked by scandal
Allegations of corruption and shoddy construction at Fujian’s Tongan power project take centerstage as part of Beijing’s scripted political theater.
No casualties, no problem?
When the corpse count is zero but the prestige damage is fatal, the CCP suddenly discovers the virtue of moving on quietly.
Since the beginning of this year, three megabridges have collapsed in China
Should extra-large bridges be built in geologically unstable areas? Basic Common Sense would like to know.
Landslide topples China’s Hongqi Bridge
Impoundment of world’s future tallest dam suspected as trigger.
Gambling with geology
Just months after its grand opening, China’s Hongqi Bridge partially collapsed in Sichuan — a catastrophic failure that experts are calling a design failure that “should never happen.”
Hongqi Bridge collapse triggers alarm in seismic Sichuan
The collapse of a section of southwestern China’s Hongqi Bridge exposes unstable slopes, rushed geological surveys, and the hidden risks of rapid dam impoundment.
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.
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