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.
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.
The dam at the roof of the world
China’s Yarlung Tsangpo project will be the largest hydroelectric project on Earth. What does that mean for India, and the Brahmaputra?
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 $167-billion Tibetan dam alarms scientists, neighbors
China’s massive megadam project in Tibet has sparked fierce criticism for its precarious location in a seismically volatile, ecologically fragile region on the Tibetan Plateau.
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 and India are racing to build giant dams on either side of their disputed Himalayan border
China and India’s rival Himalayan megadams escalate geopolitical tensions, environmental risks, and displacement threats.
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