[Epoch Times, July 21, 2021]Hello everyone, and welcome to the “News Talk” on Wednesday (July 21). This is Lin Lan (host). Guests are current affairs commentators Qin Peng and Lin Xiaoxu.
Today’s focus: Dismantling the “timeline” of the Zhengzhou flood disaster, man-made disaster? ! Once there was a flood in 5000, couldn’t it make the headlines of the mainland media? In a word from the official media, Henan 75.8 “the world‘s most tragic man-made disaster”.
[Zhengzhousufferedthemostextremeprecipitationafter1949thesubwaywasfloodedanditwasdifficulttoescape]
Zhengzhou City, the capital of Henan Province, China, suffered floods caused by extreme rainfall. From July 18th to 20th, the rainfall in just 3 days was close to the rainfall of the past year; among them, from 4pm to July 20th. At 5 o’clock, an hour’s rainfall reached 201.9 mm, breaking the historical record since 1949.
The video taken by Zhengzhou netizens showed that vehicles were floating in the flood on the street; many people were washed away by the turbulent water. A father tried to catch his child in the flood, but both father and son were washed away by the flood.
A flood of water poured into Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 at around 6:50 in the afternoon, causing the subway to stop operating. By 7:20 in the afternoon, the water level had risen to close to the shoulders or even necks of passengers. The air was thin. The video taken by netizens showed that Some passengers have collapsed on their seats and lost consciousness. There are also many suspected dead bodies on the subway platform.
In today’s program, we will sort out the timeline for you and analyze whether there are man-made disasters behind the natural disasters.
In addition, the Chinese Communist Party officially claimed that the extreme rainfall this time exceeded the local rainfall record in August 1975. And this led to a disaster that the CCP has been trying to cover up, which is more tragic than the Chernobyl nuclear accident: Henan Banqiao dam failure. We will take you to understand in detail and analyze the similarities between the 2 disasters.
First look at a piece of news to understand the local disaster situation.
[Combatingthetimelinethereisnooneafterthenaturaldisaster?】
Such a heavy rainfall will cause severe flooding in any city. But what makes it difficult for the outside world to understand is that the local subway did not stop immediately. Let’s sort out a timeline for everyone.
Extreme rainfall occurred on July 20 from 4 to 5 pm.
According to a report from China’s “Jianji News”, Ms. He from Zhengzhou got off the Zhengzhou Metro Line 5 at 5:5 pm. After getting out of the subway, she found that the water on the road had reached her waist.
According to a report by “Elephant News” on the mainland, by 6:30, a Ms. Li took Metro Line 5 and went home along the beach street to Shakou Road. (At this time, one and a half hours have passed since the extreme rainfall. Still operating), after another 20 minutes, at 6:50, the subway stopped suddenly after passing the Beach Street station. Then the carriage started to keep getting water.
By about 7:20, the water in the carriage had reached the shoulders of the passengers, and some short passengers had been flooded to their necks. Passengers began to shoot videos asking for help from the outside world. After the news was spread, rescuers began to arrive at the scene between eight or nine o’clock. However, the rescue was carried out in batches. According to the interface news report, there were still passengers trapped in the water after 8 o’clock, and the water had reached the armpits.
By 9:43 in the evening, the Zhengzhou News Broadcasting announced that the trapped passengers had been evacuated from the carriages and that the passengers were not in danger of life.
However, in the early morning of the next day, the Propaganda Department of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee issued another message saying that the heavy rain caused the suspension of Zhengzhou subway and 12 people died.
Xiaoxu, natural disasters are inevitable, but how big are the man-made disasters? Could these casualties be avoided or reduced?
[Netizens’ video self-help network is strictly controlled or will be deleted one after another]
Qin Peng, what can you add? In addition, many people say that thanks to the videos taken by citizens, the outside world has a little understanding of the real situation of the Zhengzhou flood. How did these videos survive under severe Internet censorship?
[Rainfall exceeds 75·8 and the extreme heavy rain causes the world’s worst man-made disaster]
According to the CCP’s official meteorological news, the extreme heavy rainfall in Henan has exceeded the 1 hour rainfall record of a 75.8 extremely heavy rain. On August 5, 1975, the 1-hour rainfall in Linzhou, Henan reached 198.5 mm. However, the official news that did not mention is that the extreme rainfall in 1975 caused the dam to burst and flood, which was accused of being the worst “man-made technological disaster” in human history. Moreover, this disaster has been a forbidden area for the CCP’s propaganda so far, so let you understand it together.
Xiaoxu, there was a very important reason for the dam failure in Banqiao, Henan, that is, under the high degree of centralization of the CCP, the locality has lost a certain degree of autonomy. Does this problem still exist?
Qin Peng, Banqiao dam failure occurred during the Cultural Revolution, busy struggle, neglect of management, is also one of the reasons for the disaster. This problem still exists now?
The Emergency Management Department of the Communist Party of China held a meeting on July 16 to learn Xi Jinping’s spirit, and delivered it at various levels; other provinces were found, and various political studies around the centuries of the founding of the Communist Party of China began in early July. I often heard government officials complaining that work was too busy and time was not enough. If you want to go to the grassroots level, you can’t go deep.”
Where did the time go? It turned out that a considerable part of the time was occupied by various meetings. The secretary of the county party committee of a poor county complained that, just after the first half of this year, he participated in dozens of meetings held by his superiors. In addition to the various meetings held in the county, after a rough calculation, on average almost half of the time was in meetings.
[The Chinese Communist Party’s official media “reports the good without seeing the people, but not the sorrows”]
Qin Peng, the same problem also includes the response of the Chinese Communist Party’s media. In a normal society, the main body of disaster news is the victims. Their pain, how much they have suffered, what difficulties they face, and whether there is official malfeasance, etc., but the CCP’s official media’s practice this time has been criticized as usual. “I see the officials but not the people, and report the good but not the sorrows”?
Xiaoxu, on mainland social media, someone posted a discussion about whether the Henan floods were caused by human disasters, but netizens soon followed up and said, “Don’t discuss it, don’t give a knife to foreign forces.”
The meaning is that discussing these may allow the so-called “foreign forces” to find reasons to criticize the Chinese Communist government. How do you respond?
There was another disaster on July 20. It was a humanitarian disaster that lasted for 22 years. On July 20, 1999, the CCP launched its suppression of Falun Gong. Today we want to respond to some common questions from netizens in a targeted manner.
Xiaoxu, it is often said that Falun Gong practitioners oppose persecution and insist on freedom of belief. It is fine to do the exercises at home, but do not oppose the government. Falun Gong practitioners are now launching the Three Quit Movement, persuading people to withdraw from the CCP team, and running the media. This is an intervention in politics. What do you think?
Qin Peng, the CCP has been in power for more than 70 years, and almost no group has been suppressed with iron fist, but it can be said that it has hit the southern wall on the issue of suppressing Falun Gong. Some people say that Falun Gong practitioners are too organized, so they cannot be defeated. What do you think? Exactly there is no organization? Organizations are easy to be bought or infiltrated and disintegrated; in addition, let’s talk about why Falun Gong practitioners persist so much.
Xiaoxu, on the eve of July 20 this year, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price publicly stated at a press conference that he urged the CCP to immediately stop its suppression of Falun Gong. Last year, Secretary of State Pompeo issued a statement calling for an immediate end to the persecution. Why did the State Department of the two administrations of the United States continuously make an official statement on the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong?
Qin Peng, many people say that Falun Gong practitioners fight against persecution to fight for their freedom of belief. I do not oppose it, but it has nothing to do with me and I do not support it. What do you think? What is the significance of Falun Gong practitioners’ anti-persecution?
Online viewing method:
Epochtimes News: https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/nf1334917.htm
Talk about the news: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_wRsYpCP2kuql6BuTM7W_g?view_as=subscriber
NTD Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0r1j2CGOX4&feature=youtu.be
[Support]To escort the truth and speak out for silence, just today, support the Epoch Times
https://donate.epochtimes.com
“News Everyone Talks” Production Team
Editor in charge: Li Hao #
.