China UNLEASHES Flood on Poor People
Added 2021-08-09 18:47:39 +0000 UTCNot really a surprise, is it?
—Chris
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In the summer of 2016, when I was still living in Beijing, there were some major downpours--the type that would turn the hutongs into knee-deep canals. One morning after a day of heavy rain I ran into a young Chinese friend of mine who was incredibly upset. He said that a Korean news report was circulating on social media that detailed how a dam or dams had been opened in Hebei province *with no warning, in the middle of the night*, washing away the homes of 16,000 villagers, causing lord-only-knows how much death and destruction. The news reports, unsurprisingly, had already disappeared from WeChat before I even bumped into my friend, and I couldn't find anything online later that day. It's shocking how similar--down to being in the same province--this story is to what I heard from a friend in 2016.
Mattias
2021-08-10 02:09:04 +0000 UTCI was wondering the same thing about Newsweek. The NYT seems almost certainly under heavy Chinese influence. it seems a tremendous amount of US media is paid for by China or at least afraid of offending China for mainly political and economic reasons.
Sparkle with Thirst Pockets
2021-08-09 21:16:22 +0000 UTCThe Sacramento Bee just posted an interview with Larry Elder where one of the reporters associated his making videos with "The Epoch Times" with support for Fulan Gong and QAnon. Is the Sacramento Bee run by the CCP and making a false association between the two? It was confusing.
Loren Baird
2021-08-09 20:41:17 +0000 UTC
