China’s cover-up amid Nepal floods? Posts by Tibet locals deleted, rescue images promoted

The floodwaters tore through villages, roads and border infrastructure. But on the Chinese side of the Nepal-Tibet frontier, another kind of disappearance appears to have followed. Videos posted by Tibet locals showing the scale of the devastation were reportedly removed from Chinese social media by the President Xi Jinping-led regime, leaving behind a tightly curated stream of official rescue footage. That contrast has put China’s handling of the disaster under scrutiny. While journalists in Nepal have been collecting eyewitness accounts and images from the ground and the Nepalese government is also being transparent about the ongoing developments, information emerging from…