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China Is Buying Hamburg's Port. And Germany Keeps Saying Yes.
Germany spent years lecturing the world about economic sovereignty. It warned developing nations about the risks of letting Chinese state companies into critical infrastructure. It pointed fingers at Gwadar. At Hambantota. At Piraeus. Now China’s state-owned shipping giant Cosco is quietly buying up Germany’s most important port, piece by piece. Not through a takeover. Through paperwork. Through…
Two Hours to Two Minutes: Inside China's Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the New King of the Sky
Forget the Empire State Building – imagine a structure nearly 600 feet taller, spanning a vast canyon and turning a grueling two-hour mountain drive into a simple, two-minute ride. That is the reality of the newly opened Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou Province, Southern China. Officially opened to traffic on September 28, 2025, this $280 million masterpiece has already set new world…
Two Hours to Two Minutes: Inside China's Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the New King of the Sky
Forget the Empire State Building – imagine a structure nearly 600 feet taller, spanning a vast canyon and turning a grueling two-hour mountain drive into a simple, two-minute ride. That is the reality of the newly opened Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou Province, Southern China. Officially opened to traffic on September 28, 2025, this $280 million masterpiece has already set new world…
Two Hours to Two Minutes: Inside China's Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the New King of the Sky
Forget the Empire State Building – imagine a structure nearly 600 feet taller, spanning a vast canyon and turning a grueling two-hour mountain drive into a simple, two-minute ride. That is the reality of the newly opened Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou Province, Southern China. Officially opened to traffic on September 28, 2025, this $280 million masterpiece has already set new world…
Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge; दुनिया का सबसे ऊंचा पुल जून 2025 में खुलेगा, वायरल वीडियो ने मचाई सनसनी
Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge: चीन एक बार फिर अपनी इंजीनियरिंग क्षमता से दुनिया को चकित करने जा रहा है। गुइझोउ प्रांत में बना हुआजियांग ग्रैंड कैन्यन ब्रिज दुनिया का सबसे ऊंचा पुल बनने को तैयार है। इसका वायरल वीडियो सोशल मीडिया पर तहलका मचा रहा है। आइए, इस इंजीनियरिंग चमत्कार की कहानी को करीब से जानें। दुनिया का सबसे ऊंचा पुल हुआजियांग ग्रैंड कैन्यन ब्रिज 625 मीटर ऊंचाई के साथ रिकॉर्ड तोड़ेगा।…
Collapse of New Bridge Underscores Worries About China Infrastructure
By Keith Bradsher, NY Times, August 24, 2012 HONG KONG--One of the longest bridges in northern China collapsed on Friday, just nine months after it opened, setting off a storm of criticism from Chinese Internet users and underscoring questions about the quality of construction in the country's rapid expansion of its infrastructure.
A nearly 330-foot-long section of a ramp of the eight-lane Yangmingtan Bridge in the city of Harbin dropped 100 feet to the ground. Four trucks plummeted with it, resulting in three deaths and five injuries.
The 9.6-mile bridge is one of three built over the Songhua River in that area in the past four years. China's economic stimulus program in 2009 and 2010 helped the country avoid most of the effects of the global economic downturn, but involved incurring heavy debt to pay for the rapid construction of new bridges, highways and high-speed rail lines all over the country.
Questions about the materials used during the construction and whether the projects were properly engineered have been the subject of national debate ever since a high-speed train plowed into the back of a stopped train on the same track on July 23 last year in the eastern city of Wenzhou. The crash killed 40 people and injured 191; a subsequent investigation blamed in particular flaws in the design of the signaling equipment.
According to the official Xinhua news agency, the Yangmingtan Bridge was the sixth major bridge in China to collapse since July 2011. Chinese officials have tended to blame overloaded trucks for the collapses, and did so again on Friday.
Many in China have attributed the recent spate of bridge collapses to corruption, and online reaction to the latest collapse was scathing.
"Corrupt officials who do not die just continue to cause disaster after disaster," said one post on Friday on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter.
Another Internet user expressed hope "that the government will put heavy emphasis on this and investigate to find out the real truth, and give both the dead and the living some justice!" A third user was more laconic, remarking, "Tofu engineering work leads to a tofu bridge."
Chinese news media reported that the bridge had cost 1.88 billion renminbi, or almost $300 million.
