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Dams cause earthquakes, earthquakes cause other earthquakes

By Fan Xiao on November 29, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

A new study focused on the 6.8 M Luding earthquake in China’s Sichuan-Yunnan seismic zone, shows how dams make areas susceptible to earthquakes directly (through RIS) and indirectly by altering geological structures, […]

Why is the salty tide at the mouth of the Yangtze River related to the high dams and large reservoirs in the Upper Yangtze River?

By Other News Sources on October 31, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The Yangtze estuary’s saline tide has changed significantly since the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir. 

Three Gorges migrants through the lens of Li Feng

By Probe International on October 28, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The creation of China’s Three Gorges Dam buried the past and overturned the lives of millions. Tracking these changes across the years: one of the country’s greatest photographers.

Ukraine is winning

By Patricia Adams on October 22, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

This is what winning looks like.

After eight years in prison, lawyer Xia Lin approaches his release

By Other News Sources on October 20, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Chinese human rights lawyer, Xia Lin, was arrested one year prior to Xi Jinping’s “709 Crackdown” on lawyers and human rights activists in 2015. What has Xia Lin’s time in prison looked […]

Nuclear war is thinkable

By Patricia Adams on October 13, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The West is miscalculating if it thinks it can safely push Putin to the brink.

Flee from floods

By Other News Sources on October 11, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Why did the Chinese government choose not to reveal the real total capacity of the Three Gorges Dam reservoir – perhaps the most critical technical specification of the entire project?

Peach blossoms on the back, hometown underwater

By Other News Sources on September 30, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

A photographer captures 30 decades of life in upheaval for Three Gorges migrants and one moment, in particular, that stirred an entire nation.

China is the winner in the Russia-Ukraine war

By Other News Sources on September 29, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The US must remember that communist China is its greatest threat, and to resume its ‘pivot to Asia’ policy.

The West mimics Mao

By Other News Sources on September 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Takes a Green Leap Forward.

A human rights lawyer pays the painful price of standing up to Xi’s China

By Other News Sources on September 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Once a high-flying corporate attorney, Ding Jiaxi awoke to a far more perilous vocation: human rights law in China.

Where did the Yangtze go?

By Other News Sources on September 7, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Expert highlights government actions as reason for dry-up, not just absence of rain.

6.8M earthquake triggers lockdown criticism

By Probe International on September 6, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

As disaster strikes the southwest of China’s Chengdu capital, residents are left reeling from a fixation on pandemic restrictions in the midst of an emergency.

The Great Absurdity

By Other News Sources on September 4, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Is insisting on “Zero Covid,” an early rehearsal for total social control?

Lianfang Street Standoff

By Lisa Peryman on September 1, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

A rare rupture in crowd control reveals the level of “zero-COVID” frustration in China.

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