A small aircraft appeared to have struck the tallest building in China’s capital on Friday afternoon, in a shocking incident in one of the world’s most fortified cities.
Dramatic footage from Beijing posted on social media showed debris falling from the 109-story CITIC Tower, also known as China Zun, as well as a tail section of the plane and a broken window of a taxicab on the ground.
A CNN journalist witnessed people evacuated from the skyscraper gathering on the streets near the entrance, along with firetrucks, police cars and an ambulance.
Authoritarians get where they are by protecting strength so they can manipulate others. That means everything becomes about not appearing weak and that means hiding any sign of things going wrong.
Weird. I’d argue the US has had the same moto for decades. Ref American Exceptionalism as a cultural stigma.
the us has always been pretty authoritarian
“Projecting,” not “protecting,” but yes.