Dead Typhoon Returns! 3 Massive Landslides Hit China, 170 Billion Mega Dam in Danger!

3. Massive landslides. Strike China. $170 billion megadam in danger. Worse than the Tibet disaster about to happen? A dead typhoon came back. Landslides. Typhoon 100. Year floods hit China. 3. Story building swept away in seconds. Car dealer reveals nobody wants Huawei's trash EV. Price dropped by half in just one year. The crash beam was plastic. All Chinese parents robbed? First week of school and they're already crying their eyes out? The truth is too heartbreaking. Two old Beijing military region commanders raided. Xi is hunting Zhang Yuxia's network may trigger a backlash. Welcome to Redwall, where we examine major world events with clarity, context, and thoughtful analysis. 3. Massive landslides. Strike China. $170 billion megadam in danger. Worse than the Tibet disaster about to happen? A video from Tiger Leaping Gorge showed rock peeling off the wall for about four minutes. Tourists ran. The clip was posted around 2.30pm. No casualties were reported. The same slope had already dropped rock on July 30, and again in mid-August. Three hits in one place. Staff at the scenic area said the collapse was outside the official boundary, and the site stayed open. Officials in Tiger Leaping Gorge town blamed recent rain for loosening soil. Commenters were blunter. This is extremely dangerous. Why here so often? Something serious will happen sooner or later. The gorge sits on the Jinsha, the upper Yangtze, on the line between Lijiang in Yunnan and Shangri-La. From river to peak, the drop is more than 9,800 feet. At the pinch, it is about 100 feet wide. On July 18, rain already flooded walkways, dropped buildings, and trapped tourists in a tunnel for nearly two hours. The Jinsha is no longer a free river. Geologist Fan Xiao wrote in 2024 that 27 cascade stations were planned from Yibin in Sichuan up toward Qinghai, turning the main stem into a string of reservoirs. Twelve stations on the middle and lower Jinsha are finished. Of 13 planned on the upper river, Suolong is done, and six more are under construction, including a main stem plant upstream of the gorge near the Sichuan-Yunnan line. In August 2025, that project finished the first inclined shaft of what officials called China's steepest diversion tunnel. Work has moved to concrete. The station that worries Fan most is Longpan the Old Tiger Leaping Gorge Scheme under a new name. Installed capacity is smaller than the three gorges. Storage is not. Officials describe a multi-year regulating reservoir of about 48.5 billion cubic yards, larger in regulation than the three gorges. Fan listed four problems. It sits on an active fault. It would cut into the three parallel rivers' World Heritage landscape, including the gorge and the first bend at Shigu. It would drown about 33,000 acres of valley farmland and force at least 150,000 people out. And it undercuts any claim of sustainable development. Under Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao, the project was stalled. Citizens and foreign groups fought it after 2004. By 2007, it was suspended. Developers rebranded it Longpan and waited. Associated Press noted who skipped the three gorges completion ceremony. Wen, a geologist who spent 18 years in the Gansu Bureau, killed a 13-dam plan on another river as unscientific. After Xi Jinping took power, blocked water projects came back. In 2022, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration put Longpan into the 14th five-year renewable list as Yangtze flood control and energy transition. Resettlement prep started in 2024. At the end of 2025, Yunnan Huadian Longpan Hydropower Development Company was stood up to build it. China Affairs commentator Yang Bo said the Huwen years still left a little room for public cost. Under Xi, ambition runs first, people first, life first, is the line. The projects say otherwise. Fan had already applied the same logic to Zipingpu after Wenchuan in 2008. A 156-meter dam, water more than 330 feet deep, extra load on the long-mentioned fault, seepage acting like lubricant. Six of seven reservoir earthquake markers were present. The rest of the summer was the same story at smaller scale. After Typhoon Soudal, Beihu District in Quanzhou, Hunan, saw more than 10 slides and 20-plus blocked roads. Beijing said zero dead. Fengshan in Yunnan lost two and left four missing. Yuyang in Chongqing lost 51 dead and 10 missing on July 17. In Yueqing, Zhejiang, a villager wrote under a CCTV clip that small rocks had been falling for a month, the hotline got a fence, and the comment vanished. August 26 on the China-Nepal line still hangs over all of it. More than 1,000 dead in both countries. More than 4,500 missing. Chinese experts blamed a glacier inside Nepal. Kristen Cook, of the University of Grenoble, on the Nepal investigation team, told National Geographic and RFI the trigger was bedrock failing under the ice, dragging the glacier, melting on the way down, damming the river, then bursting. Ice alone would have been a slow avalanche. Rocks applied the mass and the heat. A dead typhoon came back. Landslides. Typhoon 100. Year floods hit China. Three story buildings swept away in seconds. Fujian took the rain first. Videos showed a three-story building lifted and gone in seconds. Then, Typhoon Soudal, already written off the spun up again off Hainan and hit the southeast coast on September 1. On September 2, Diantou Town in Fuding, home of China's number one white tea street, was a brown river. Cars went with it. A resident said no one expected this much water. The water has gone down now, but there has been no official assistance. Residents are cleaning up on their own. There may already have been casualties, but no figures are available yet. A tea factory owner watched the first floor stock soak and the heavy front door leave with the current. A woman said an entire floor of her shop filled in less than half an hour. She had not seen a flood like it in decades. Soudal was the year's 18th named storm. It had already hit Zhejiang, chewed southern China, slid off western Guangdong, and died on paper. The remnant became Tropical Depression 20, then a typhoon again over the South China Sea before dawn on September 1. The National Meteorological Center put up a blue warning and talked about Jiangnan, South China, western Yunnan, southeastern Tibet, and the northeast. Former Hong Kong Observatory director Lam Chew Ying wrote that in 50 years, he had never seen a storm behave like this. What exactly is nature trying to tell us? Humans often boast about high technology, but how can that compare with the mysteries of the weather? Southern Zhejiang broke its own books, from 8 a.m. on the 1st to 8 a.m. On the 2nd, Kangnan and Wenzhou logged about 15 inches at a national station, the highest single day on record there. Automatic stations in southern Zhejiang and northeastern Fujian saw more than 16. Wenzhou went from yellow rain alert to red. More than 120 people were moved. A slide blocked the spillway at Jinzhilong Reservoir in Qixi. County Road 528 and the Daibang Line disappeared under mud and trees. Kenmen Village was cut off. Then the reservoirs opened. In Mengle, Yunnan, Yantan Reservoir in Molong Village, Mohan Town, looked ready to go. More than 8,000 people were told to leave. A hydropower station in Xiaotong dumped into the Baishui, and streets flooded after the houses had already taken water and slides. In Kangnan, Chaodun and Wujiayuan opened the gates. Chen, a shop owner in Lingxi, said after 4 p.m. the rain was one thing, and the release was another. There's no time to react to the warning. Miss, Lin said the drainage was never managed. Huang in Mapo, Pingyang. This month alone, I don't even know how many times the water has risen. In Ruiyan, shoeboxes floated down the street. A young man spent a day looking for his front gate. Chen in Tangxia. I really feel like crying. Who is going to help us? Shenming Shi of Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research put the pattern in a straight line. Lulun Reservoir in Guangxi in July, Zhengzhou, Zhoukou, Guirong unannounced releases, then a death toll that does not match the water. Nepal has posted 1,114 dead, 3,916 missing, 11,993 rescued, and more than 2,000 unidentified bodies with DNA. Beijing still talks about 21 dead and 500-plus missing on its side of the same valley. A week later, state media's rescued victim was a stuffed rabbit. Ten people were punished for rumors, most of them for guessing the dead. Jiang in Chengdu wrote that Guirong's official missing plus Nepal could pass 1,000. He was right early. That was the crime. Users asked if Jiang even existed or if the case was built to keep the rest quiet. Henan Geological Bureau expert Yang Kun said that in the CCP's eyes, warnings are basically just a declaration. In the 20th of July 2021 Zhengzhou floods, there was no red alert, the subway did not stop, the Jingguang Road tunnel was not closed, and people were not evacuated. In the end, they concealed the deaths of 140 people. The only thing these officials fear is losing their positions. Huawei also drew fire. Executive Yu Chengdong posted a Mate XT's promo. A Weibo user claiming a Nepal IP sent a Huawei satellite message called a helicopter and saved him. Users accused the company of profiting from suffering. So in an entire disaster area, there was only one Huawei phone? Last time it was Guangxi, same script. One comment said Huawei, closely tied to the CCP, shows the same traits in a crisis indifference toward ordinary people and a lack of basic common sense. Car dealer reveals nobody wants Huawei's trash EV, price dropped by half in just one year. The crash beam was plastic. A repair blogger opened a Chinese EV and found PPGF40 stamped on the rear crash beam, polypropylene with 40% glass fiber. He had seen Tesla's metal beams and domestic steel. He had not seen plastic. Using this as a crash beam is simply unbelievable. Comments went where they always go with this brand, way ahead of everyone else. Which Huawei family is this? Another blogger took a 2024 AITO M9, bought near 600,000 yuan, 30,000 kilometers, paid off, zero gravity seats, projection screen, driver assist, electric sidesteps to used lots in Wenzhou. First shop, with 320,000 yuan work, 310,000 and a 5,000 yuan deposit? There's no way the price can go above 300,000. Second shop, same ceiling. Why the drop? This is what you call a tax on intelligence. Buying this kind of car means paying an IQ tax. The dealer did not soften it. Drive it zero days, buy today, sell tomorrow. You are still down at least 100,000 yuan the second it leaves the store. Nobody in Wenzhou wants this type of car. Used car dealers don't even dare take them. Third shop was the same. The man asked the model, then waved. AITO M9. No, no, no. Take it away. I already bought two of these cars. I can't sell them. I lost money on both. No offer, the owner drove it home. Huawei's Haima Stable AITO, Luke Seed, Mike Stroh, Stellato has a smaller halo now. Build quality, used prices, and after sales that feel like a fight. One owner said the assist system died and the wheel shook so hard he would not touch it. A comment. I would actually eat a chicken raised in 180 days. I really wouldn't dare drive a car built in the same amount of time. Another, hold the wheel and it will shake the kidney stones out. A 650,000 yuan Huawei car less than 20 days old went black on a bridge. The belt locked. The car behind cooked its discs. The company called it occasional. Ads sell LiDAR and a thinking fortress. When the controller burns, the algorithms leave, and you have a heavy box in the lane. Sell it as intelligent driving, write the contract as assistance, so the driver owns the wreck. A reviewer's hard line, the G badges will not travel far. Wenji, Zhiji, Xiangji, Zongji, Shangji, five names, and Huawei still says it does not build cars. It sells the stack and the story. Sera's tied itself to that stack. Sales spiked and fell. The stock is more than 60% off the high. Beye sees Stiletto S9 moves a few hundred a month. Jack's Mixtro is not even out, and the parent is already hurting. Car makers want volume and a name. Huawei wants harmony wrapped around everything. Those are not the same job. One comment, even if Huawei stamped the body itself, the quality would not improve. Stay away. The fan layer is part of the product. Point at a jump test suspension fault on the S9, and the accounts lock. Religious cars. Yu Chengdong's line's best SUV, under 10 million yuan, strongest auto brake on earth, will absolutely never catch fire became a punchline after an M7 highway fire killed people. When sales are good, Huawei takes the credit. When oil leaks, Huawei fans say that is the partner's metal, not the system. On August 25, a restroom arrow in Shanghai pointed at a Huawei flagship. Jokes wrote themselves. Best restroom under 10 million yuan. By the 26th, the sign was gone. The toilet stayed. After sales is slower than sign removal. Someone filmed a bamboo cicada and called it the best toy under 10 million yuan. Huawei complained. The video came down. The toy sold out. Spin it, and it chirps like you on stage. The party wrapped the brand in patriotism after Meng Wanzhou. This year, the wrapping is peeling. The lot price is the part that does not need a slogan. All Chinese parents robbed? First week of school, and they're already crying their eyes out? The truth is too heartbreaking. Monday morning, first week. A parent who had already posted about a 550 yuan semester class fee, walked in and found the child in the last seat. Class adjustments are completely normal. Then why is only my kid in the back? You're the one who likes complaining. Go ahead and complain. The name went on the record. Yi Yiding, class 2, grade 4, CG Center Primary School. The teacher offered to move the seat if they would just ask nicely. The chair was the receipt. Another parent put the legal line on the table. Nine years of compulsory education. Why the endless charges? You don't have to pay. It's voluntary. None of us want this. That is 80% saying no. Li Yiming, class 3, grade 5. Try something if you dare. I'm not paying. 550 yuan. Parent chats have not slept. Meal fees, tuition, buy this, buy that. Is it just me who cannot find 5,000? Gold and watches go into a bag. Online classes start and the number jumps past 100,000. Have you pawned anything yet? Zheng Tian listed the autumn stack textbooks. Boarding, class fees, service add-ons. The fear is not refusing the best. It is that the child needs something the account no longer holds. One wage used to cover school, rice, and a roof repair back home. This generation cannot cover tuition and can barely cover itself. A kindergarten took 21 children, one class, and is dying. No one will marry or have kids. A family of four pulled a five-year-old. Tuition over 7,000. Forest and food instead of a room that makes her sick. Private half-year, 7,000. 500 plus crafts and bedding, 9,000. 400 a term. Withdraw. A campus down the street enrolled nobody. Two kids, 10,000 yuan, empty pockets. The husband will not ask his parents. Whose parents are writing the check at your house? A post-80s father said his hands shook at 13,000. 328 yuan three or four months on a sewing machine. Elders need a doctor. You do not say expensive. The child is in school. You do not say poor. You do not get sick. You do not take leave. You earn. Same cohort, darker joke. Last life, they blew up the earth. University, 96,000 a year. 400,000 for four. First job, 3,500. 15 years to break even. Cemetery plots will spike in 30 years when the post-80s move in. Tuition rises because their children arrived. Preschool talk gets cheaper because those kids already grew up. A child care law appears because this generation is done having more. A junior college third year cannot see why more than 6,000 lands in one bill if he skipped the campus internship. A private e-commerce major pays 20,000 to 30,000 a year for five-year-old books and a partnership that is a factory screwdriver. Max Research, campus living 1,744 yuan a month in 2025, up 43.9% from 2016. Chongqing, 1,500 to 2,000. Guangzhou graduate track, 3,000 before the milk tea. A Jiangsu parent meant 20,000 for tuition and hit the phone bill 23,065.36. It went viral because 20,000 is a family's month, not a rounding error. Fall, 2,026. Fudan and Shanghai Jiao Tong lifted double first-class undergrad fees, about 10%. Henan Science jumped 35.1%, 3,700 to 5,000. The 2025 education budget ran about 4.7% under 2024 actual spend. The students did not leave. The money did. Then, the loop. No job that matches the diploma, so stay in school. Huazhong, University of Science and Technology, 2,025, about 7,300 undergrads, 9,750 graduate students. Tsinghua, 4,000-plus undergrads, over 9,000 graduates. Fudan, 4,300 undergraduate freshmen, over 12,000 graduates. A master's starts to look like yesterday's bachelor's. Stimulate demand or warehouse people. The factories and offices will not take. The teacher said voluntary. The last row said otherwise. Compulsory on the banner. A watch in the pawn shop in week one. The party still recites the people. The group chat is still asking who has 5,000. Two old Beijing military region commanders raided. Xi is hunting Zhang Yuxia's network may trigger a backlash. On September 3, U.S.-based commentator Chai Shenkun wrote that former Beijing military region commander Zhang Shibo had his home hit. A chat screenshot said the villa in Zhuji, Zhejiang, was raided and that two vehicles from the Military Discipline Commission went to Song Puxuan's house. The sender said Zhang was already in custody. Beijing has not put it on the wire. The handling looks quiet. Zhang is 74, from Zhuji's same hometown as Zhang Xiaojun. Before the 18th Party Congress, he used Zhang to get Xi Jinping into the Beijing military region just ahead of Army Day. Xi never trusted him. In 2014, Zhang and Song swapped jobs. Zhang went to the National Defense University as president. Zhang's last post was political commissar there. Zhang was stripped of his National People's Congress seat on August 28, along with Zhang Yuxia, Liu Zhenli, and Zhu Gansheng. That was the official end of Zhang. Ex-users did not dress it up. Hometown ladders used and dumped the National Defense University as the last stop. It's a gangster organization. No one has a sense of security. Song Puxuan is 72, from Boxing County, Shandong. He ran the National Defense University, the Beijing military region, the Northern Theater Command, and the CMC Logistics Support Department. Full general in July 2015. On September 3 that year, he commanded the parade and rode the review with Xi. He retired in 2019 and landed an NPC committee post in 2020. Both men sat at the Defense University with Liu Yazhou, then political commissar, who is said to have been sentenced in secret. Yue Shan, writing in the Epoch Times, said the three were close enough and that Song and Zhang may not have been far from Zhang Yuxia and Liu Zhenli either. From July 2013 to December 2014, Song and Liu issued 12 clean governance rules. Govern the army by governing the officers, strict teaching, strict exams, strict research. Zhang took the president's chair in December 2014 and stayed next to Liu. The retired list is already long. Navy Commander Shenzhen Long, Navy Commissar Qin Shengxiang, Air Force Commissars Yu Zhongfu and Guo Puxiao. The first three lost their NPC seats on February 26 for serious violations. Guo lost his on June 26. At Jiang Zemin's centenary on August 17, former Joint Staff Chief Li Zuocheng was missing. On August 28, the NPC Standing Committee took Zhang Yuxia off the state CMC vice chair and Liu Zhenli off the state CMC. The deputy seats went with the jobs. An insider told the Epoch Times, the retired cohort is the loudest in private. Some drink alone. Some will not take the unit's call. Active officers swallow it. The old men still talk. The fifth plenum is set for October under the banner of strictly governing the party. Yue Shan said an expulsion of Zhang Yuxia or a manufactured anti-party clique would not surprise anyone. The raids on veterans in this reading are a hunt for Zhang Yuxia and Liu Zhenli's remaining friends. Complaints get overheard. These men cannot raise a rebellion. They still have students and former subordinates in uniform. Push too hard and those lines push back. Heng He told NTDTV that Xi has now offended every camp. He is angry at heaven and earth because loyalty will not arrive on command. He has no gift for producing it. Purging the elder's old staff creates more enemies than it buries. The party's legitimacy and his own are both on the table. Shenming Shi of Taiwan's Institute for National Defense and Security Research said insecurity is the weather now. Whether someone decides to go all the way and roll the dice on a military move is hard to say. Mark, who hosts the YouTube channel Mark's Space Time, put it simpler. She can hold the title and still not run the army. Slow walking and empty effort are the resistance that does not need a communique. 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