If they have to, the Chinese will cut through the Himalayas to find the dead.
From Lhasa to Shigatse to Gyirong Port, Highways 219 and 216 on the roof of the world are packed with excavators from provinces across China—about 15 kilometers of machines, a lot of them staged as relief crews waiting to rotate onto the front. Civilian flights keep pouring people and supplies into Lhasa. The mud the machines have already pulled out has been piled into a 200-meter hill behind the line. In 48 hours, mechanized units have dug six kilometers toward the port. They’ve fully uncovered buried Highway 216. One kilometer left to Gyirong.
At the gate itself, hundreds in the advance team are searching around the clock for anyone still alive. Temples across Tibet are praying. Ordinary Chinese people have donated on their own.
A handful of Indians have smeared China and Nepal online. That is not the weight or the values the Ganges civilization is supposed to stand for. Politics is a tumor in human history.
No force on earth can run a dig-and-rescue like this at Gyirong, in the Himalayas. If anyone can—it’s the Chinese people.