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.
From Red Guard to “blue hair”
Why Leftists destroy womanhood.
The wheel of misfortune: victims, victimhood, and victimization
A healthy society must acknowledge suffering without weaponizing it.
Post-Plenum anti-CCP banners appear in Beijing
Another high-profile banner protest unfurls in China’s capital as the CCP’s Fourth Plenary Session wraps up.
China’s major cities struggle amid economic challenges
Despite a modest rise in national retail sales, Beijing and Shanghai face significant declines, prompting state media to launch a confidence-boosting campaign.
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.
Archiving RTHK
A U.S. NGO rescues critical programming content targeted by Hong Kong’s draconian National Security Law.
Mapping China’s North American fentanyl commanders
Sinologist Chris Meyer and journalist Sam Cooper reveal CCP-aligned Chinese criminal networks as architects of global fentanyl trafficking, reshaping cartel operations under Xi Jinping’s regime.
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