China’s airline industry just posted a staggering $1.7 billion loss in only six months. The three state-owned giants — Air China, China Eastern, and China Southern — together lost over 8 billion yuan, while regional carriers like Shenzhen, Shandong, and Sichuan Airlines each lost more than a billion.
Despite ticket prices falling below high-speed rail on many routes, planes are still flying with empty seats. Average load factors have dropped to around 65%, while jet fuel costs have surged sharply due to geopolitical tensions. Airlines are trapped in a brutal price war just to keep their routes, but every extra flight only deepens the losses.
With massive debt, overcapacity from aggressive plane purchases, and weak consumer confidence, smaller carriers face real bankruptcy risks. Is China’s aviation sector heading for its biggest collapse yet?

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China Showed One Frame of the Gyirong Flood — Then an Animation: 546 Missing, 23 Countries

A glacier breaks apart on a slope inside Nepal, 5,200 meters up. Ice and rock fall to 4,000 meters, tear open the mountainside, and run down the valley at about 50 meters per second.
At the bottom of that valley is a border crossing between China and Nepal. From the ice breaking to impact: 7 minutes.
What would you do with 7 minutes?
Security cameras recorded all of it. The video was around the world within hours. Inside China, the main evening news bulletin broadcast a single still frame. Two days later, state media released something else. A 3-minute animation of the disaster, built on a computer.
This is about those two images. The one that was filmed and taken down, the one that was built and sent out, and the 546 people still missing underneath both.

From Yungay To Tibet To Three Gorges Dam: Could 132 Million Be Caught Next?
Four palm crowns rise out of a flat gray wasteland. No roofs. No walls. No streets left to recognize. The aerial photograph only needs one caption: "Here was Yungay." Three minutes before that photo could have been taken, twenty thousand people were living on that ground. The city is still down there, under those palms — buried beneath debris that hardened like concrete, in places deep enough to swallow a ten-story building whole. And the government back then didn't just abandon the site. They made it permanently illegal to dig it up.
What makes this story more haunting than an ordinary natural disaster is this: two geologists had described exactly what was going to happen — eight years before it happened.
Picture a timeline stretching from a small town in the Andes more than half a century ago, to a border crossing in Tibet just days ago, and possibly, to the largest dam on Earth in a future nobody wants to think about. Three points on that timeline — Yungay, Gyirong, and a name a lot of people avoid saying out loud, the Three Gorges Dam — share a pattern too disturbing to write off as coincidence.

See the Yonge city destruction from above and understand how a catastrophic event wiped a community of 20,000 off the map.

This footage provides an aerial view of the aftermath, detailing the immense scale of debris that buried the city. We examine the geography of the site, where hardened rubble is now deep enough to swallow entire structures. It is a stark look at the reality of a town that no longer exists.

Following the tragedy, government officials designated the area as a permanent memorial rather than attempting reconstruction. This video is for those interested in urban history and the long-term consequences of large-scale disasters. We analyze how this specific disaster site has been preserved for future generations to study.

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SHOCKING: Tibet's Landslide — Nepal Got The Warning, China Ignored It. Is A Bigger Disaster Coming?
More than three days after the disaster, what the flood left behind at the Nepal-China border is still turning into a different kind of horror. On the morning of August 29th, Nepal officially updated the count: 584 people have now died across both Nepal and China, while the number missing has climbed past 2,400. The bodies of three victims were found drifting as far as 150 kilometers away, into Indian territory. But those three are just three among more than two thousand people still unaccounted for. No one knows for certain where the rest are drifting, or how deep they're buried under mud somewhere along the dozens of kilometers the flood tore through. That pain, that cruel uncertainty, forces a question that's becoming harder to avoid: what responsibility do China and Nepal bear for letting this disaster happen? Today, we're going to pull apart the evidence, layer by layer, to answer a bigger question: did these two countries, through a long accumulation of small decisions over many years, effectively open the door and invite this disaster in on their own people?

A Chinese border port with Nepal vanishes in seconds under a massive mud and debris flow from a glacial collapse in the Himalayas. Surveillance footage captures people running as the wall of mud hits, then gets deleted from Chinese platforms. Officials report hundreds missing on both sides, with conflicting accounts of warnings and causes, while seismic data points to a mountainside collapse rather than a simple earthquake.