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.
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.
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.
Yang Xiaokai’s “Captive Spirits”
A clandestine network of Mao-era dissidents, “numerous as ox hairs,” shatter myths of Communist ideological unity while anchoring modern China’s freedom struggles in this unbroken lineage of defiance.
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.
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