China's firewall hides Tibet flood disaster from its own citizens as world watches viral footage
China's reconstruction efforts on its side of the border underscore the cross-border scale of the disaster, with Nepal's home minister Sudan Gurung confirming air is now being pumped to workers trapped underground.Rescuers were forced to halt pumping air to more than 100 workers trapped at the Trishuli 3A hydropower site after heavy overnight rainfall inundated the excavation area.
Beijing has allowed only a single still image of the Nepal-Tibet floods onto state media, while the full CCTV footage of a wall of water destroying Gyirong Port has spread across the rest of the world. China has reported just seven recovered bodies and over 500 missing in Tibet, but survivors' first-hand accounts are almost impossible to find online. Tibet's long history of resistance to Communist Party rule makes it especially sensitive to Beijing's censors. Nepal's confirmed death toll has reached 675, with nearly 3,000 unaccounted for across both countries.
