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A woman carries a bag on a muddy street after severe flooding and landslide in recent days have hit the county-level Gongyi city, near Zhengzhou, in central Chinas Henan province on July 22, 2021. (Photo by JADE GAO / AFP) (Photo by JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images) Just a few weeks after they scrambled to score cheap political points against American disaster response from the condo collapse in Miami, Chinese state media organs are grudgingly admitting the deadly floods in Henan province show their government did a poor job of infrastructure planning and construction.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday tried to blame climate change for the unexpectedly heavy rains that flooded Henan, and strove to downplay the role China’s dam-building spree played in disrupting natural flood plains: Experts reached by the Global Times said the building of dams and “worsening threat” do not have direct links, especially in this case of Henan, which was more like a sudden act of nature. Overseas outlets are exaggerating the issue, as in fact the construction of dams and reservoirs will enhance regional disaster prevention and mitigation, rather than reduce it, Fu Zongfu, a professor from College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering at Hehai University, told the Global Times on Wednesday. Most countries build dams, which greatly improve flood control and disaster reduction capacity, so the construction of dams should not be denied because of a rare disaster, Fu said. Even the Global Times’ own politically reliable “experts” came perilously close to admitting that China’s hasty construction of dams and hydropower stations laid the groundwork for the Henan floods, which have killed at least 33 people, displaced thousands, and caused almost $200 million in damage as of Thursday morning.
Chilling videos uploaded by Henan residents showed people trapped in flooded subway tunnels, struggling to keep their heads above water.
“We tried to stand on the seats as much as we could, but even then, the water reached our chests in the end. I was really scared, but the most terrifying thing was not the water, but the diminishing air in the carriage, as many […]
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