New Delhi should use Beijing’s own scientists—and its record of dam disasters—to spotlight the risks of the Medog project.
How China buried Tibet flood images after Nepal disaster
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.
Guangxi floods raise alarm over structural failures in aging reservoirs
Heavy rains from Typhoon Maysak have ignited intense scrutiny over the safety and maintenance of the area’s aging infrastructure built during the Great Leap Forward era.
Typhoon Maysak exposes decades of neglect after 66-year-old dam collapses
A 50-meter breach in the 1958-era Liulan Reservoir dam raises alarm over core structural defects, and public warnings left unheeded.
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.
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.
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