Chinese Media Admit Government Failed on Infrastructure amid Deadly Floods
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22 Jul 2021
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:
Scientists watch as remote Chinese glaciers melt at shocking pace Reuters
mardi, 10 novembre 2020 à 14:24 - The melting in the mountains could peak within a decade, after which snow melt would sharply decrease due to the smaller, fewer glaciers.
QILIAN MOUNTAINS, China (Reuters) - Glaciers in China s bleak Qilian mountains are disappearing at a shocking rate as global warming brings unpredictable change and raises the prospect of crippling, long-term water shortages, scientists say.
The largest glacier in the 800-km (500-mile) mountain chain on the arid northeastern edge of the Tibetan plateau has retreated about 450 metres since the 1950s, when researchers set up China s first monitoring station to study it.
The 13th Shanghai Biennale announces participants for main exhibition
Feliciano Centurión, Untitled, 1994, oil on canvas, 164 x 217 cm. Private Collection.
SHANGHAI
.- The Power Station of Art announced the culmination of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. Its main exhibition PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION opens on April 17, 2021, with 64 participating artists presenting projects, including 33 new commissions, presented at the PSA and other venues across Shanghai.
To challenge the traditional biennale format and explore the participant-public divide, the Biennale is unfolding over the course of nine months as an in crescendo project. It began in November 2020 with PHASE 01: A WET-RUN REHEARSAL, a five-day inaugural program, and was followed by PHASE 02: AN ECOSYSTEM OF ALLIANCES, five months of activity and programing. This allowed the artists, thinkers and curators involved in the Biennale to develop their work in close collaboration with the City of Shanghai, its people
Power Station of Art announces the opening of the 13th Shanghai Biennale
The flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves. Astrida Neimanis
SHANGHAI
.- The Power Station of Art announced the opening of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. For the first time, the biennale will unfold as an in crescendo project.
Challenging the usual art biennale format, it is the first stage of an eight-month extended program that will allow the artists, thinkers and curators contributing to the Biennale to develop their work in close collaboration with the City of Shanghai, its people, networks of activism, organizations, and institutions. Bodies of Water will culminate with the opening of PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION on April 10, 2021.