<p>Photos and videos emerged Friday of a 42-story skyscraper in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> going up in flames in Changsha, a city that is home to nearly 10 million people.</p>
<p>Chinese-state media said that the building housed offices of the government-owned telecommunications company China Telecom.</p>
<p>“To prevent serious danger, some equipment in the building has been switched off,” China Telecom said in a statement. “Right now, fixed-lined communication and mobile internet service can be accessed as normal, though the voice function in some mobile phones may be affected. This is being handled urgently.”</p>
<p>AFP <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/16/major-fire-breaks-out-at-skyscraper-in-changsha-china">reported</a> that these types of fires are not uncommon in China due to &#8220;lax enforcement of building codes and rampant unauthorized construction.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">❗️In <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a>, the skyscraper of the largest telecom operator China Telecom in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Changsha?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Changsha</a> is on fire.  Hundreds of people could be burned alive. <a href="https://t.co/GDNC74k8Tj">pic.twitter.com/GDNC74k8Tj</a></p>
<p>&mdash; NEXTA (@nexta_tv) <a href="https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1570731318572634112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>China did not immediately report any casualties from the fire that engulfed the 720-foot building. 280 firefighters and nearly 40 fire engines were dispatched to the combat the fire.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">WATCH: High-rise engulfed in flames in Changsha, China; no victims reported so far according to state media <a href="https://t.co/8EJS8f6aVa">pic.twitter.com/8EJS8f6aVa</a></p>
<p>&mdash; BNO News (@BNONews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1570715605652672512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Reports out of China have to be taken worth a grain of salt, especially when it concerns something that makes the country look bad.</p>
<p>For example, U.S. officials have <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/chinese-plane-crash-killed-132-caused-intentional-act/story?id=84782873" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that they believe a pilot flying for China Eastern Airlines intentionally crashed a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane earlier this year, killing all 132 people on board. Chinese officials have yet to release their report on the crash.</p>
<p>During the coronavirus pandemic, top U.S. officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-report-leaked-docs-prove-china-underreported-pandemic-numbers-hid-previously-unreported-number" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> that they believe China “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intentionally</a>” underreported their true numbers “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-official-gives-fox-news-stunning-estimate-on-chinas-real-coronavius-numbers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by at least a factor of 50</a>.” British officials reportedly told former Prime Minister Boris Johnson early in the pandemic that China could have underreported their numbers “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-scientific-advisers-claim-chinas-outbreak-could-be-15-to-40-times-worse-than-reported-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by a factor of 15 to 40 times</a>.”</p>
<p>The Washington Post reported in April 2020 that “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence</a>” coming out of Wuhan suggested that the real death count was over 40,000, which came as China claimed at the time that it only had a little over 4,600 deaths nationwide. A conservative estimate in April 2020 from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) — which gave China every benefit of the doubt when coming up with their calculations, and then some — suggested that China severely and “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aei-releases-conservative-estimate-of-chinas-true-outbreak-numbers-its-staggering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deliberately</a>” underreported their numbers and that China’s true numbers at the time had to be at least 2.9 million infections with well over 100,000 deaths.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/world-health-organization-head-now-privately-blames-chinese-lab-for-coronavirus-pandemic-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Health Organization Head Now ‘Privately’ Blames Chinese Lab For Coronavirus Pandemic: Report</a></strong></p>

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