KEY POINTS
-A new BRICS currency is currently not on the agenda, said India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar
-His remarks come ahead of a BRICS summit to be held in August in South Africa
-Brazil and South Africa's leaders recently made statements about an alternative to the U.S. dollar
India has shut down speculation in recent weeks that the BRICS nations were planning a common currency to derisk their economies from the kind of devastating sanctions that the United States has levied on Russia and other countries by leveraging the greenback's global dominance.
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Built so many white elephants without proper drainage system and retention ponds. Very pity
Building white elephants project without proper draiange system and retention were disaster. The future is AI techonolgy driving strong and solid alliance but no evil alliance.
Yes, the future is AI technology and not those white elephants project without proper draiange system and retention ponds.
U want to compare the intellect of xi with the intellect of American propagandists? There is no compare. Xi is the best of China and probably the world
Posted by qqq47660 > 4 minutes ago | Report Abuse U want to compare the intellect of xi with the intellect of American propagandists? There is no compare. Xi is the best of China and probably the world
QQQ, can u enlighten us how intellect your world No.1 leader Xi is? U always said how intellect how intellect he is, can u elaborate it more so that we can understand him more?
Built so many white elephants without proper drainage system and retention ponds. Very pity
Building white elephants project without proper draiange system and retention were disaster. The future is AI techonolgy driving strong and solid alliance but no evil alliance.
Yes, the future is AI technology and not those white elephants project without proper draiange system and retention ponds.
Silly Xi will only know how to build white elephant Xiong Ann City known to plague the low-lying, marshy area, which is prone to flooding and drought.
As heavy rains moved toward the region in late July, China’s top flood control officials met to hash out their response plan. Among their priorities was to keep the capital Beijing and Xiong’an “absolutely safe” – a demand repeated numerous times in the days to come.
The mountainous western outskirts of Beijing were hit first, as flash floods unleashed by the heaviest rains in 140 years washed away cars, bridges and roads.
Further downstream, officials had to make difficult decisions about how to manage the churning flood waters that gushed out of the mountains into the rivers snaking through cities, villages and farmlands on the plains of Hebei.
On July 30, the first of the decisions was made to discharge water into the “flood storage zones” – designated areas for the emergency overflow of flood waters, which were home to hundreds of thousands of people.
Zhuozhou, a city south of Beijing, took the worst hit, with streets, homes and neighborhoods inundated in meters of murky water. On social media, some residents claimed they did not receive advance warning, others said the evacuation notices arrived too late or did not explain how serious the situation was.
Flood waters also submerged villages and farmlands in Bazhou, another city in Hebei, where dozens of residents protested outside the city government’s offices to demand compensation, according to social media videos.
Some unfurled a red banner that read: “Give me back my home. The flood was caused by flood water discharge, not by heavy rainfall.”
CNN has reached out to the Zhuozhou and Bazhou governments for comment. Under Chinese law, residents of flood storage areas are entitled to compensation for 70% of housing damage.
Suggestions by officials that decisions about releasing flood waters into Zhuozhou and elsewhere in Hebei were made to minimize the impact on the capital Beijing, Xiong’an and the port city of Tianjin also caused a backlash.
In particular, Hebei’s party chief Ni Yuefeng angered some when he called the province a “moat” for Beijing. Censors later wiped his comments from the Chinese internet.
Experts say various factors likely determined how – and where – flood waters were diverted, including the speed and intensity of the waters, reservoir levels and existing guidelines and regulations on flood management. And amid a lack of transparency from officials, it remains unclear exactly why decisions were made.
But in the case of Zhuozhou, which lies 30 miles upstream along the Baigou river from Xiong’an, repeated high-level calls to protect Xi’s dream city – and concern for how its defenses would stand up against heavy flood waters – may have played a role, experts say.
Preparing for the storms on July 20, China’s Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying ordered officials to make flood diversion plans to “keep the flood waters outside (Xiong’an’s) periphery and reduce the flood control pressure on its newly built embankments.”
Hongzhang Xu, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University, said it was “possible that authorities released water in Zhuozhou to pre-emptively ease pressures on Xiong’an, considering its new flood control infrastructure.”
Conserving bigger cities by sacrificing smaller ones and rural areas has long been a major flood management strategy in China and elsewhere, he added.
Fan Xiao, a Chinese geologist, said by holding up some of the flood waters in Zhuozhou, authorities were able to reduce the flood peak and delay its arrival downstream. “It mitigates the impact on Xiong’an,” he said.
Li Na, a water resources official in Hebei, admitted as much, telling state media “if it had not been for the two areas (in Zhuozhou) controlling flood waters, the pressure on flood control in downstream Xiong’an and Tianjin would be very heavy.”
Tianjin, a major port city of nearly 14 million, is where several of the region’s rivers release into the sea.
Closer to Xiong’an’s center, it’s not clear whether the development of the city changed decisions about the diversion of flood waters into Baiyangdian Lake. As northern China’s largest freshwater body, the lake serves a key role in the web of rivers and reservoirs that manage water – and flooding – in the region.
In the recent rains, at least three upstream reservoirs released flood waters into rivers flowing into Baiyingdian from the west and the south, according to state media.
But to the north, a canal that connects Baiyangdian with the Baigou River – which flows from Zhuozhou south toward Xiong’an – was shut before the flood peak arrived. Instead, the torrents were guided east through a much broader floodway to the Dongdian flood storage zone near Bazhou, where villages were inundated.
Authorities did not say why the decision was made or specifically whether protecting Xiong’an was a factor.
The floodway leading to Dongdian can contain ten times the water of the canal linking the Baigou River to Baiyangdian, and serves as the main flood relief channel for the Baigou River.
Authorities are meant to make decisions about diverting flood waters into Baiyangdian from the Baigou River based on the lake’s own water levels, according to government guidelines. Open-source data show that Baiyangdian’s water level was already high in late July and rose further in August.
Xu, the researcher at the Australian National University, said historically, waters from the Baigou river would likely have been diverted to both the Baiyangdian and Dongdian flood storage zones.
In August 1996, when the region was hit by the largest flood in three decades, Baiyangdian Lake took in 30% of the flood waters from the Baigou River, according to Chinese researchers.
CNN has reached out to China’s Ministry of Water Resources and the Hebei Provincial Department of Water Resources for comment.
the problem of Japan in the last 30 years is that Japan is unable to act in its own best interest , hands and legs tied by americans .......... but China is not Japan.
This is silly Xi man made disaster rather than natural disaster.
This proved that communism/socialism a failure political system , empowered a silly and arrogant i.diot to determine everything without relying on professional team but a team of yes men.
China is a huge and complex country. Very different from America.
and gloating about the collapse of china has become their prime time obsession. I guess it gives them some comfort and no need to think of the actual collapse of the america empire.
the year 2000 , its reasonable that a lot of Chinese wats to migrate to America for greener pasture.....now the year is 2023, and reverse brain drain from America to China is the real current.
This is silly Xi man made disaster rather than natural disaster.
This proved that communism/socialism a failure political system , empowered a silly and arrogant i.diot to determine everything without relying on professional team but a team of yes men.
Communist like Xi an arrogant and power crazy i.diot nothing to do with Chinese culture. will only makes local citizens suffered.
Its America's individualism vs China's Confucianism and common good.
now is time for China's Confucianism and common good to really shine.
even the americans under Biden are copying CCP strategies such as government industrial policies, subsiding industries, picking winners, ............... Americans are neglecting free market, neglecting WTO rules and globalisation, doing protectionism and de globalization.
Xi bring the country wrong direction and al officers around him are yes men. Those capable officers left him thats why Xi walk into the hall to meet South Africa like i.diot. His translator was blocked by security officer. It showed something wrong with his administration. He could not handle high jobless rate, real estate bubble, export dropped, flood issues, technology banned etc. This is typical consequence of all evil alliance dictators.
the global south don't agree with american hegemonic powers............the global south like how BRICS is organised to respect differences, sharing of powers, no hegemonic powers, non interference, mutual respect, win win.
its times up for america hegemony, american media always pointing fingers at others, always war mongering, starting wars, creating chaos..........................the global south don't agree with that and the global south is where 80% of the people lives.
In America u only have politicians vying to be President . U don't have people looking for win win, co operation, mutual respect, understanding , peace and prosperity.
but China is a very meritocratic country. China got no politicians, China only has patriotic and knowledgeable officials. In China, if u cannot perform u are out, every thing is results orientated.
but China is a very meritocratic country. China got no politicians, China only has patriotic and knowledgeable officials. In China, if u cannot perform u are out, every thing is results orientated.
in this world, the only other country that operates in a similar way is Singapore.
The BRICS economic alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, has officially decided to stop using the US dollar in trade settlements.
This decision was confirmed by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva at the recent BRICS summit. The alliance's decision to abandon the US dollar is in line with their efforts to promote the use of their local currencies in international trade.
In addition, the BRICS alliance will expand by accepting six more countries by 2024, which will further affect the geopolitical landscape
Iran will be BRICS member, who needs India, BRICS will do what ,they want to do , if India don't want to follow, it's ok, ... India can leave BRICS and join US empire as a vassal state and nobody will care
Those China collapse stories have around since the stone age, China will not collapse but will be stronger with each passing day , if Chinese government sense any mistake, they can change policy the next day compare to US empire whare they can change administration but their policy will never change
Xi bring the country wrong direction and al officers around him are yes men. Those capable officers left him thats why Xi walk into the hall to meet South Africa like i.diot. His translator was blocked by security officer. It showed something wrong with his administration. He could not handle high jobless rate, real estate bubble, export dropped, flood issues, technology banned etc. This is typical consequence of all evil alliance dictators.
Yes, comminism a totally western rubbish not belong to Chinese ancient culture.
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KEY POINTS -A new BRICS currency is currently not on the agenda, said India's Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar -His remarks come ahead of a BRICS summit to be held in August in South Africa -Brazil and South Africa's leaders recently made statements about an alternative to the U.S. dollar India has shut down speculation in recent weeks that the BRICS nations were planning a common currency to derisk their economies from the kind of devastating sanctions that the United States has levied on Russia and other countries by leveraging the greenback's global dominance.