Floodwaters rushed down from Tibet, killing over many people and leaving thousands missing, yet the Chinese state media calls it the "Nepal flood."
Just days before the disaster, someone had already filmed the border hydropower construction sites: nonstop blasting, rock crushers roaring away, tunnels forcibly carved into cliffs, with virtually no safety measures and environmental protection nowhere in sight.
Projects like Rasuwagadhi and Upper Trishuli 3A that were washed away—all backed by Chinese capital or Chinese companies.
The State government official line is that it was a glacier collapse blocking the river and then bursting. They lie without even drafting a script! The entire river valley has been turned into a construction zone—blasting, digging, and diverting the riverbed—amplifying the risks.
Tibet has planned over a hundred hydropower dams, and the Jilong border crossing is being bulldozed right into glacier and seismic zones. Power sent east, water discharged south.
Now a landslide dam has formed upstream, liable to burst again at any moment, and downstream Nepal and Bihar in India will be definitely be affected.
Chinese obsession with infrastructure will be their own undoing.