Super Flood Hits Again: Cities Underwater, Victims Without Food Cry for Help!

Entire mountain collapses at China-Nepal border. Hundreds in cars swallowed as Beijing hides the toll. Super flood hits Guangxi again. Cities underwater. Victims without food cry for help. From hot pot to billiards. Young Chinese flock to suggestive businesses as the real economy shrinks. China shuts the exit door. Thousands stopped at airports. 4,000 passports seized even. U.S. citizens. Not just cabbage. Eight Chinese foods vendors commonly soak in formaldehyde. Welcome to Red Wall, where we examine major world events with clarity, context, and thoughtful analysis. Entire mountain collapses at China-Nepal border. Hundreds in cars swallowed as Beijing hides the toll. At about 10.30am on August 26, a wall of black mud and debris came down like a tsunami on the Nepal-China border. Guirong Port in Shigatse, Tibet took the hit. Nearly 100 people on camera started running when they saw the flow. It was faster than they were. People, vehicles, and buildings disappeared in seconds. Surveillance looked like the end of the world. It may have been one of the worst landslide disasters in China's history. Buses, cars, and containers were swept away or buried. People at the inspection building vanished. Witnesses said it sounded like a volcanic eruption, as if the mountain itself were being torn apart. On the road, drivers shouted, get out of here now, and threw vehicles into reverse. The China-Nepal Friendship Bridge at Guirong, also called the Resuo Bridge, took the rising water, trees, and mud head-on. The midspan broke. Deck and railings dropped into the river. Concrete, steel, and rock went downstream. In the valley, buildings and roads were still visible at the start of one clip. About 30 seconds later, a brown peak swallowed a dam under construction and the valley floor. A hydropower site near the border, tied by users to China Power Construction Corporation, was overrun. Workers ran in every direction. On the Chinese side, stretches of National Highway G216 toward Guirong were wrecked. Power and communications went down. Mud ran 50 to 80 centimeters deep. Some spots sat under 1.5 meters. Parts of the inspection compound were buried. Roads were cut. By the evening of August 27, Nepal police and the NDRRMA said 359 bodies had been recovered across eight districts, from Resuo south to Chitwan. 910 people remained missing in Nepal, including 517 foreign tourists. In Tibet's Guirong County, China confirmed three dead and 558 missing, among them 260 foreigners. Combined, the disaster stands at at least 362 confirmed dead and more than 1,400 unaccounted for. A man who had worked border construction said dozens of workers from his site were missing and his living quarters were gone. He had resigned on the 19th and left. About 500 people worked inside the port, including staff. The whole area was submerged within 30 seconds, so more than 1,000 casualties is entirely possible. Most of the workers at our site were from Sichuan. A resident of Ngari Prefecture who visited in June recalled crowds, pilgrims headed for Mount Kailash, workers and armed police. Nepalese video shows a slope giving way and gray-yellow dust filling the valley. Normal river level was more than six meters. Flood peak exceeded seven. A passenger on a bus wrote that they escaped by a hair. On the afternoon of the 26th, a survivor named Fang told Xiaoxiang Morning News she had planned to leave Guirong town at 9 a.m. for Nepal and woke late. The town is about 20 kilometers from the port, a 40-minute drive. Four kilometers out, trees and poles were down. The floodwater came rushing toward us. We didn't dare turn around, so we could only reverse. They backed about three kilometers. A communications truck ignored the warning, went forward and came back. By 5 p.m., she still could not reach a friend at the port. Guirong sits in a 93-kilometer funnel on the south side of the Himalayas, with a drop of more than 2,400 meters. Loose rock and soil from upstream Nepal rode the rain, narrowed, and hit the Chinese facilities as high-impact mudflow. The crossing is a national first-class port and a main China-South Asia trade route. PlanetLab's images obtained by Reuters show the river channel more than twice as wide. Villages, bridges and roads lie under mud. Investigators are looking past ordinary monsoon rain toward an ice and rock collapse. About seven minutes before the disaster, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck nearby. Whether it triggered a collapse that blocked the river, then an outburst, is still under review. Nepalese experts say they need days of satellite and terrain work. This valley has already been hit. On 8 July 2025, a flash flood and slide upstream tied to a glacial lake outburst washed away the Friendship Bridge. Eleven people on the Chinese side went missing. Six Chinese construction workers on the Nepalese side were reported missing. The total reached 17. The 2015 magnitude 8.1 earthquake near Pokhara, only 43 km in a straight line from Girong town and 20 km deep, had already cracked those slopes. Landslides tore the China-Nepal highway. Debris flows blocked roads. Glacier melt and growing lakes added piping risk. Rain, broken rock, lake water and earthquake after-effects form one chain. The sharper question is why the party kept packing people and concrete into the most dangerous place on the route. Development that treats political will as stronger than geology does not stay theoretical. Cameras will film the next run for the hills. Super flood hits Guangxi again. Cities underwater. Victims without food cry for help. Oh no. Everything inside my front and back pants is gone. That is how one resident described what the water took. Southern China is still under heavy rain from the typhoon. Flooding in Guangxi has spread. More than 54,000 people have already been evacuated. Many of those left behind sound as if last month never ended. Continuous rain, reservoirs that failed, and authorities who released floodwater without warning left whole families convinced that the next time they open their eyes, the house will be gone. Nasha Reservoir, one of Guangxi's three major reservoirs, opened its gates. Fangchenggang and Chengzuo went under. Videos show city streets as open water. People were trapped and hungry for a full day with no timely rescue. Low-lying old districts disappeared. Residents spent the night moving whatever they could carry. First-floor shops filled. Along the channels, ground-floor apartments were almost completely immersed. With no water, no power, and a dying signal, some climbed to the fourth floor just to get a phone bar and call out. Hainan is in the same cycle. Residents say one discharge outlet at Boshan Reservoir in Guishan County, Zhumidian, has been dumping water for more than two weeks. Downstream in Anhui, the Menghua Flood Storage Area has put four townships underwater. Attention has not followed. Most of the people hit now face power cuts, dry taps, broken roads, wrecked houses, ruined crops, and no way home. Official teams have been late. Neighbors have taken boats out themselves free rides. Drinking water, rice, and flour for the elderly next door. In some county villages, roads, phones, and basic supplies are all gone. Rescue is guesswork. Crop losses, crop losses, crop losses. The phrase repeats because the fields are the second disaster. Risk assessments say rivers in the Yangtze, Huai, Hai, and Pearl basins could still produce super floods. Water that is already in the streets has not fully receded. Upstream inflow, plus more local rain, can build a second peak. Expectations have to come down. As the maps fill with red, some readers pulled the 2026 entry from the old times, Di Mu Jing, the Earth Mother Scripture. 2026 is a Bingwu year. Bing and Wu are both fire in the five elements. The year is also called the Red Horse Year. The text reads, In the year of the Taisui Bingwu, there will be many floods in spring and summer. Planting on high ground low plains will be washed away by water. The Times Kongsheng Zhenzhongji Times says nearly the same. In Bingwu, the waters surge and roar. Plant as high as possible. On the first day, everything is submerged by water. Heaven's force strikes like a knife. The last Bingwu year was 1966, when the Yangtze basin flooded hard. Before that, 1906 brought an extraordinary flood across the south. In 1846, the north went under. The almanac was written to time planting and to warn. It is circulating again because the pictures match the lines. The rule on the ground is simpler than prophecy. Do not gamble with the flood. Do not stay for furniture. Move the old, the children, and anyone who cannot run before the water crosses the threshold. In the mountains, watch for torrents, mudslides, and collapsing slopes. Last month's unannounced releases and broken dams already taught that lesson the expensive way. This month's boats full of rice are what is left when the official column does not arrive. From hotpot to billiards, young Chinese flock to suggestive businesses as the real economy shrinks. Chongqing's newest hotpot pitch is not the broth. In high-rise private rooms overlooking the two rivers, young women in high-slit qipao move through luxury suites and sell what the trade calls eight beauties service. Food is the backdrop. One server can take thousands of yuan in commissions in a night. Commenters said even restaurants now run on suggestive marketing. Without a good figure, you can't even become a server. If I don't have a net worth of 100 million yuan, I would feel embarrassed asking for this. Some of the staff are university and art school graduates. Competition, people said, will only get worse. The model is a response to a shrinking dining market. When taste no longer fills tables, appearance is the fastest draw. Haidilao, under pressure on revenue and turnover, tried a nightclub turn. Male DJs, cocktail shows, dancers. Some locations reportedly doubled nighttime take. Critics said once a restaurant lives on performers instead of food, the industry's foundation is already shaken. This summer, Guizhou's Luobe River Rafting in Guiding County sold companion rafting. Packages ran from 398 yuan to 1,988 yuan. Customer service for the Pro Max tier said it included hand-holding, hugs, and kisses. More intimate add-ons could be discussed privately. After the story broke, the Guiding County Tourism Bureau opened an investigation with police and market regulators. The scenic area operator said the program was a partner's private sideline and ordered a halt. Short video platforms are already full of soaked rafting carnival clips from canyons in Jinhua, Anji, and elsewhere. Commenters called it cheaper than tipping livestream hosts. Whoever came up with this commercial rafting is a genius. In Changsha, private cinemas sold movie assistants. 360 yuan bought a companion in the dark. Extra cash bought touching, revealing uniforms, dinner outside, or longer bookings. Staff claimed one customer spent 20,000 yuan in four days. Reporters found similar packages in Xi'an, Chengdu, and Dali, some hinting at overnight arrangements. After police raids, rooms and signs changed and the trade went on. Pool halls joined in. In Wuhan, a female assistant's base pay starts around 15,000 yuan a month. Good looks and WeChat skills can push that toward 50,000. The job is high heels, tight skirts, overnight shifts, livestream dancing when the tables are empty. Owners use the women as bait, unpaid cleaners, and social media ads. After a few years, many leave with health problems, go home to marry, or slide into nightlife clubs. Owners recruit the next 18-year-olds. One assistant wrote, If the economy were not so difficult, if we did not need money and could find good jobs, how many women would choose this line of work? Since 2025, the same logic has moved through Xishuangbanna restaurants with mouth-to-mouth feeding by male servers, Fuzhou's bag-carrying male models, Happy Valley and Fantawild NPC Walpin Axe, Mount Yimei climbing helpers, Wugong Mountain licensed companions, and Luoyang's Chengdugo hiring men aged 18-28 at 30,000 yuan a month as modern-day Pan'an, overseas Chinese town, still saw cultural tourism revenue and margins fall. About 22% of theme parks remain unprofitable. Copy-paste scripts raise labor costs and squeeze shops that sell actual food and service. The old lipstick effect said people cut houses and cars but still buy small comforts. In China now, beauty brands are slipping. A few hundred yuan for attention and flattery has become the new cheap treat. Master's graduates take office jobs at 3,000 to 4,000 yuan a month, while some junior-high dropouts make thousands a day in game companionship and live streams. Money flows toward tips, private rooms, and paid company, instead of research and productive work. Critics call it false prosperity. The singing girls across the river who do not know the grief of a fallen kingdom. The suggestive economy does not fix inequality or blocked mobility. It is a bandage. Underneath, young people are still looking for a wage that does not require them to sell the night. China shuts the exit door. Thousands stopped at airports. 4,000 passports seized even. U.S. citizens. A New Zealand visa was cancelled before the family boarded. They had lived and traveled abroad for three years. The papers were real. They had only heard of other people being blocked and assumed those cases involved fake documents or illegal work. Now they were the case. Reports on X and Xiaohongshu say government-linked work units and companies are pulling passports. One video shows a state-run organization banning staff from going abroad and extending the ban to their families nearly 4,000 passports collected. A woman filmed herself in tears. The caption, Locked in a small room. Banned from leaving. Her passport cancellation date was the 15th of August, 2026. Officers told her one student from her university had stayed in Spain and not come back. The entire school, 60,000 students, was barred from traveling. For any reason. On August 20, a father and an eight-year-old son holding both Chinese and U.S. passports were stopped at Shanghai Pudong before they reached border control. The airline described as an English-speaking carrier from a special administrative region refused a boarding pass and demanded a U.S. visa, saying the child could be deported without one. The father showed the U.S. passport. The boy is an American and has the right to enter the United States. Staff still refused. They said he needed a one-time Chinese travel document or should fly to a third country first. The family canceled. Even the person at the airline counter issuing boarding passes can stop you, the man said. The blogger who posted the clip argued that airlines have been folded into the control system used to dress China's exit ban as someone else's entry rule. Another traveler said August 15 felt different. Africans and Europeans ahead of him moved through baggage and documents with little fuss. Chinese passengers were held 5 to 10 minutes. The first questions were not wait and ticket. Why are you going abroad? Why do you need to leave? What is the purpose of this trip? He had flown out many times. This was new. The state council published new entry-exit rules on July 31, effective September 15. They include reviews of citizens' digital data and wider bars on people tagged to national, industrial, or technological security. An insider video said the net covers public employees in sub-districts, townships, and communities and their spouses and minor children. Former spouses are out. Violations mean discipline. Stop privately making plans to obtain overseas residency. Blogger Luo Xiang posted a message from a man running a China-US factory project. American colleagues invited him to headquarters. They checked in together. The Americans, who also had VPNs, walked through. Officers found the app on his phone. What is this? Who told you to install it? He said work. They use it too. You cannot leave the country now. No further reason. On August 18, a passenger flying Pudong to Seattle was told to fill an exit information form in the open. About half the flight, he said, never boarded. The plane left with empty seats and people crying at the counters. Overseas, consulates have begun refusing passport renewals and offering only a one-way paper home. Billy, a long-time California resident, wrote that San Francisco's consulate was rejecting applications and telling people to renew inside China. An agency said it had never seen rules this tight, including for people from Xinjiang. A Japanese business owner of Chinese descent visited relatives with his family and was pulled aside for seven days, then pressed to drop Japanese citizenship, restore Chinese nationality, and accept a 10-year exit ban. His company in Japan stalled. Canadian blogger Lau Den relayed an exit entry officer. The new rules are not an offensive. Without them, capital and talent leave faster. The officer said he had personally seen more than 100 files this year of Chinese descent foreign citizens pushed to restore Chinese nationality. If something does not happen to them personally, they simply focus on living their own lives. Why would the government target him? Then everything earned in a free country is gone in an instant. In the 1950s, the party called students and intellectuals home to build new China. Many were later branded spies and smashed in political campaigns. The method has changed. Promises are out. Pressure is in. Under CCP logic, people with Chinese nationality are state assets. The party takes the foreign currency when it wants it and cuts the legal identity when it feels threatened. Inside or outside, no one is safe while that system stands. Not just cabbage. Eight Chinese foods vendors commonly soak in formaldehyde. A video posted August 22 by mainland blogger Yuli Qige showed vegetable dealers in Kangbao County, Hebei, dipping Chinese cabbage in formaldehyde before loading it onto trucks. The clip spread fast. Consumers panicked. Then another account, Mealtime Information, put out a list of eight foods merchants commonly treat the same way, pickled pepper chicken feet, shrimp, baby bok choy among them, and told people to look twice before buying. Formaldehyde is a colorless industrial chemical with a sharp smell. It preserves, kills bacteria, and binds materials. It is used in construction, furniture, textiles, and medicine. The World Health Organization's Cancer Agency classifies it as a Group 1 carcinogen. High levels of the gas burn the eyes, nose, and throat. They cause coughing, chest tightness, headaches, and skin reactions. Swallowing food loaded with it can scorch the digestive tract and bring on severe pain, nausea, and vomiting. Long-term exposure raises the risk of respiratory disease and cancers, such as nasopharyngeal cancer and leukemia. The scare moved overseas. South Korea uses large amounts of Chinese cabbage for kimchi. The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety tightened border checks on cabbage from China and began tracing whether tainted loads had already arrived. Extra controls are not off the table. Korea grows most of its own cabbage, but cheaper Chinese cabbage and ready-made kimchi have become a staple for restaurants. Seoul diners said they worry when they eat out. Caterers said they are concerned about safety, yet under cost pressure, they can't completely stop using it. Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare is checking whether the cabbage reached Japanese ports. Officials noted that formaldehyde is not a substance that can be used in food to begin with. Under normal circumstances, it is hard to imagine anyone would use it this way, so past import checks never listed it as a routine test for cabbage. Tokyo said it would wait for more information from China before deciding on measures. Mealtime information listed the eight categories vendors most often soak. First, beef tripe, omasum, and yellow throat. Normal pieces look a bit yellow and wrinkled and smell faintly fishy. Abnormally white, puffed up, or oddly crisp pieces, or ones with no smell or a sharp chemical note are suspect. Second, pickled pepper chicken feet. Chili, Sichuan pepper, and vinegar mask odor, so color matters more. Normal feet are slightly yellowish. Third, shrimp. Plump, glassy frozen shrimp look fresh. Real shrimp soften and shrink after thawing. Buy from regular stores. Avoid bulk shrimp of unknown origin. Fourth, baby bok choy and Chinese cabbage. Rinse under running water several times, soak about 10 minutes, and cook thoroughly. Fifth, hairtail. Old fish darken or yellow on the silver scales. Abnormally white and shiny fish should raise a flag. Sixth, water-soaked sea cucumber and tendon. Formaldehyde or hydrogen peroxide has been used to swell them and make them crisp. Look, smell, touch. Too white, too large, pungent, or crumbling in the hand, leave it. Seventh, vermicelli, wide noodles, and konjac shreds. Illegal treatment can make them rubbery. If vermicelli is still as hard as a rubber band after 10 minutes of boiling, there is a problem. Eighth, dried squid shreds, kelp, silverfish, and other dried goods. Formaldehyde improves color, keeps insects off, and speeds rehydration so the product lasts longer. Normal white fungus is light yellow, not pure white. Kelp that turns too green and too shiny is off. The account's advice is simple. Buy from regular supermarkets and brand stores. Treat bulk food that is suspiciously cheap and has no clear origin as a risk. A pungent or odd smell is enough reason to walk away. The cabbage story is not new in kind. Every few years, another soaked, bleached, or chemically plumped item surfaces. Regulators issue a statement, the public forgets, and the same trick returns on a different vegetable or a different stall. Merchants chase shelf life and appearance. Buyers chase price. Inspection that never tested for a chemical hard to imagine in food is the gap that made the latest load possible. Until that gap closes, the list of eight is less a curiosity than a shopping list for anyone who still has to eat. We value your perspective. Let us know your thoughts in the comments. If you found this report meaningful, please share it with others. Your support helps us continue delivering independent, fact-based analysis on global affairs. Subscribe and like to stay informed with RedWall. Thank you for watching.