Censors erased viral footage while Chinese state media flooded platforms with official content.
If this is a natural disaster, what is there to hide?
Same flood, two stories: Nepal counted the dead; China hid the footage of its national gate vanishing.
What actually caused the Nepal disaster
The lives lost turned on who stood in the gorge and whether anyone warned them—not on a climate verdict: Roger Pielke Jr.
North American LNG won’t displace Asia’s coal
Why 190 million tonnes per annum of export capacity still can’t crack China and India’s sovereign energy systems.
Beijing’s Excalibur: Coal as China’s weapon of sovereign power
At the exact moment Western economies rush to eliminate coal, China is deliberately scaling output by 25%, embedding it deeper into power, steel, chemicals, and national resilience.
China coal mine disaster: hollow regulations exposed
Decades of safety standards, repeated fines, and official oversight have failed to prevent routine illegal practices, concealed operations, and profit-driven disregard for human lives in China’s coal sector.
China’s coal surge as Iran war buffer comes at deadly cost
A catastrophic gas explosion in China’s top coal-producing province exposes the human toll of Beijing’s increased coal output during ongoing disruptions to oil and gas supply.
The bluer the sky, the colder the homes
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.
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.
How Net Zero is weakening the West
Lessons of the past: principles must be “accompanied by steel along with good intentions,” or liberty itself will wither.
China’s data centres: watts behind the bytes
China’s AI-driven data center boom, powered by coal and prioritized over climate goals, epitomizes the energy paradox of generative AI.
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.
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