A small aircraft crashed into CITIC Tower, Beijing's tallest skyscraper and headquarters of state-owned CITIC Group, on Friday. Eyewitnesses described the aircraft as car-sized, with debris falling and firefighters responding to a fire, while authorities have issued no immediate statements on cause or casualties. [BBC News] [Washington Post]
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The crash at a state-linked skyscraper illustrates opacity around incidents involving elite institutions and raises urban safety questions in megacities.
“Concentration of power and disproportionate risks to ordinary citizens”
Official silence fits patterns of narrative control and prompts scrutiny of regime competence in aviation security.
“Authoritarian information management and potential defense gaps”
State ownership of major assets produces predictable information blackouts and restricts independent accountability.
“Centralized power versus open information flows”
All prior views overinterpret routine emergency delays as systemic concealment and under-examine the incident's limited physical scale.
“Western media pattern-matching and unverified assumptions about intent or ownership models”
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