China news roundup / Nachrichten 2026-08-29/30
Published on HivePostify by @bossel · Mon Aug 31 2026
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[Footage of Tibet floods isn't being shown in China - and we know little about victims there](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2z415w2gpo) > "Beijing has launched a massive rescue operation involving hundreds of emergency workers."
--- You should rather call it a massive propaganda operation. Because there are many more people involved in producing propaganda videos than in actual rescue operations.
> "President Xi Jinping chaired an emergency meeting with officials to co-ordinate efforts"
--- Yes, Emperor Xi is very involved and very concerned. So much so that he travelled to Kyrgyzstan: [Putin, Xi set for Central Asia summit as Russia and China seek to counter Western influence](https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260830-putin-xi-set-for-central-asia-summit-as-russia-china-seek-to-counter-western-influence)
> "There have been daily updates on the missing and the dead"
--- Yeah right, daily updates. Well actually, the number of dead is officially at 16 now. But that's it pretty much. I wonder whether it will go up or not? There's actually quite a number of foreigners who are missing. But I guess they will stay missing forever. And China just will hope that everyone else forgets.
> "Beijing has also been posting updates on the rescue operations"
--- Well, what you call updates. They publish propaganda videos in which they show how well organized everything is. And how wonderful the Chinese rescue teams in their very clean and tidy uniforms are working restlessly. [Worse Than Tibet-Nepal Mudslide: China’s Fake Rescue, From Premier To Rescue Team,Everyone Is Acting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5HJvPAHhdw): Not a fan of China Observer because they are a bit too biased, but in this video they actually show quite well how China is faking its rescue operations.
> "On Saturday, new footage from Chinese state media showed rescue teams wandering in a wasteland of mud and rock while calling out to anyone trapped"
--- Which is particularly effective if they do this when they are on what looks like solid rock, and then hunker down and shout something onto the rock. (see video above)
> "On Thursday night, as global headlines led on the devastation in a Himalayan valley, China's state broadcaster opened its main bulletin with the launch of Xi's new book, a selection of his "most important and fundamental works"."
--- Which is obviously way more important than actual rescue work. All hail Emperor Xi.
[Chinese control of information hampers assessment of Tibet flood damage](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/chinese-controls-information-hamper-assessment-tibet-flood-damage) > "The floods devastated villages along the Himalayan border region that straddles Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet. On Friday, the official death toll in Nepal rose to 538 people, while in China it was just five, despite the fact that the villages around the Gyirong border crossing are home to several thousand people."
--- The spirit of Emperor Xi of course kept them safe. You just need to believe and everything will be fine.
[Fifteen Britons among 261 foreigners missing in China after floods](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/30/britons-foreigners-missing-china-tibet-nepal-floods) > "The 15 missing British people are among 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries missing in China, according to figures released by Chinese authorities, bringing the total of missing Britons between Tibet and Nepal to 48. The Tibet autonomous region’s government said the total missing there also included 104 Nepalis, 49 people from India, 33 from Latvia and 18 from the US. [...] The figure for missing Americans has been disputed by the US state department, which declared on Sunday that at least 85 US citizens were missing."
--- Information with Chinese characteristics. I wonder what will happen if they find more than a few dozen of these missing foreigners. Will they stick with their previous number of dead? Will they update it? Or maybe they hide the foreign bodies?
> "Chinese soldiers used life-detection equipment to look for the missing"
--- In other words they used highly sophisticated sticks, mouths and ears:
[Before flood catastrophe, Nepal asked China for early warnings as risks mounted](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/before-flood-catastrophe-nepal-asked-china-for-early-warnings-as-risks-mounted/ar-AA2bdJ9j) > "No officials or experts have blamed either side for the natural disaster, which will cost an estimated tenth of Nepal's annual economic output to recover from. Nepali officials say the priority is to deepen cooperation with China."
--- Morons.
> "Chinese teams had shared important information with Nepal "in a timely manner""
--- Timely with Chinese characteristics obviously, because even on the Chinese side they didn't actually warn their own citizens at the border. If it is correct what I heard Chinese officials were warned seven minutes before the mud avalanche reached the border post.
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[Chinese-Owned Luxury Hotel in Cyprus May Have Been Used to Spy on Key British Air Base](https://greekreporter.com/2026/08/29/cyprus-hotel-spy-air-base/)
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[Chinese government ships spotted in record numbers off Taiwan in July](https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/28/asia/taiwan-china-ships-record-intl-hnk)
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--- China Uncensored featured the usual weekend news variety:
--- China Uncensored: "China’s FINAL SOLUTION For Its Economy"
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[Opferzahl steigt, Suche nach Vermissten geht weiter](https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/flut-nepal-tibet-opferzahl-steigt-100.html) > "Nach der Flutkatastrophe in Nepal und China ist die Zahl der Todesopfer auf 750 gestiegen. In Nepal wurden nach Angaben des Katastrophenschutzes 734 Leichen geborgen. Chinas Behörden hatten zuvor bekanntgegeben, dass die Opferzahl im Katastrophengebiet im Südwesten der Region Tibet 16 erreicht habe."
--- Allein in China werden noch so ungefähr 260 Ausländer vermisst. Man darf sich fragen, ob diese ewig vermisst bleiben oder ob sie tatsächlich in die Todeszahl eingehen, wenn man sie findet. Sollte man sie finden.
[Wie China Informationen aus Tibet kontrolliert](https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/china-tibet-nepal-flut-100.html) > "Sie zeigen: die geordnete Ankunft gestaffelter, uniformierter Einheiten, Drohnen- und Helikopter-Bilder aus der Luft, die Verteilung von Hilfsgütern und technische Geräte, die zum Einsatz kommen. Die Videoaufnahmen von den gewaltigen Wassermassen der Sturzflut, die am ersten Tag noch im chinesischen Netz kursierten, haben staatliche Zensoren inzwischen weitestgehend gelöscht."
--- Eigentlich ist hier gar nichts passiert. Es muss auch niemand gerettet werden. Denn in Kaiser Xis China ist alles unter Kontrolle. Nichts Schlechtes kann passieren.
> "Nach Angaben der staatlichen Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua, hieß es in dem Treffen, die Behörden müssten "wissenschaftlich fundierte Such- und Rettungspläne ausarbeiten und alle Anstrengungen unternehmen, um nach Vermissten aus dem In- und Ausland zu suchen"."
--- Obwohl eigentlich nichts passiert ist, sind unsere Rettungsteams doch höchst wirksam im Einsatz. Und die Vermissten werden bestimmt alle lebend gefunden.
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[Pazifisches Inselforum - Chinas Muskelspiel im Hintergrund](https://orf.at/stories/3440391/)
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--- tagesschau24: [Chinas Umgang mit der Katastrophe in der Region Tibet](https://www.tagesschau.de/video/video-1639226.html)
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