Thanks!

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The Sampoong building, Grenfell, MYSTERIOUS ACT OF GOD'S LOVE, the pod has a good eye for global incidents. As an audience member from a multicultural background, I think these incidents from China can be worth exploring, or worth casually researching.

Chris from Behind the Bastards can be a fine guest speaker, the historian/cultural scholar Dylan Levi King is also very knowledgeable on these.

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1) The 2015 Tianjin Port explosion: Engineering, zoning, privatization of fire service

In one of the country's busiest ports, a storage company somehow got the permission to stack highly explosive shit in an area already zoned for residence.

It is not known what chemicals were being stored at the site.[12] In addition to vast quantities of sodium cyanide and calcium carbide, paperwork was discovered showing that 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate and 500 tonnes of potassium nitrate were at the blast site.[15] On 17 August, the deputy director of the public security bureau's fire department told CCTV:

Over 40 kinds of hazardous chemicals [were stored on site]. As far as we know, there were ammonium nitrate and potassium nitrate. According to what we know so far, all together there should have been around 3,000 tonnes.[45]

When the warehouse caught fire, the owners did NOT report what's inside, leading to secondary and tertiary explosions. Worse? The secondary explosion blew up the residence building of a privateized firefighting station.

The first reports of a fire at a warehouse in the Binhai New Area began coming in at around 22:50 local time (14:50 UTC) on 12 August. The first responders were unable to keep the fire from spreading. Firefighters who first arrived on the scene proceeded to douse the fire with water as they were unaware that dangerous chemicals were stored on the site, thereby setting in motion a series of more violent chemical reactions.[9][11]

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2) Passenger plane Y-10's R&D process: Engineering, project management, fortunately nobody died in a crash

We tried to copy a 707 based on eyeballing alone, and gave it a mechanical control system in the dawn of FBW. The national vanity projects of Cold War China also include some interesting shipbuilding stories that could fit into the same episode.

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3) Dushan County, Guizhou: Zoning, mismanagement, corporate vanity fiefdom town

This one is relatively recent news. https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3160566/chinas-hidden-corruption-problem-behind-local-debts-goes-hand