Typhoon Bavi is bringing strong winds and rain to Yuhuan, in east China's Zhejiang Province, on Saturday, with rough seas and waves crashing along the coast.
The city raised its emergency response to the highest level on Friday night and tightened risk controls.
Video from the Huaneng Cangnan offshore wind farm in Wenzhou on Saturday morning shows worsening conditions, with sustained winds of 27.6 m/s and gusts up to 31.6 m/s. Waves top 4.5 meters, and the camera shakes under heavy rain. Equipment currently remains stable. All turbines are in typhoon mode, with staff monitoring around the clock.
At the Huaneng Yuhuan plant in Taizhou, strong winds and rain are also hitting. All Huaneng facilities in Zhejiang are on typhoon alert, with safety checks, equipment reinforcement, and emergency staffing. Outdoor work has stopped. The plants are ready to ensure stable power supply during the storm.
Typhoon Bavi lashes Zhejiang coast, bringing strong winds, heavy waves
The President of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Annalena Baerbock, has warned that the United States' withdrawal from multiple UN agencies weakens international organizations and harms people around the world.
In an exclusive interview with China Media Group during her recent visit to Beijing, Baerbock addressed the implications of the U.S. withdrawal from more than 60 international organizations and mechanisms by January this year, roughly half of which are UN-related.
"In an interconnected world, what happened in one part of the world affects the rest of the world, and even the biggest superpowers, they cannot protect themselves against the global crises, as climate change, as a pandemic, as we saw in COVID, but also now with relation to the war between the U.S. and Iran in the Middle East. The effects of being felt everywhere and the U.S. is calling for support, so this underlines again that even the strongest superpowers need the United Nations, need a clear set of common," said the UNGA president.
"If they leave part of the United (Nations) organizations, this weakens the organizations, which harms people all around the world. We saw it with a lack of support now for the World Food Program. But it's also not in the interest of the bigger powers themselves, so it's in the self-interest of every member state, especially the strong ones, to strengthen the multilateral system and the UN agencies. And also, on a legal issue, because I'm a lawyer, I'm a strong defender of international law without any double standard, some of the organizations, you cannot just leave anyway. So even if you announce it, you are being bound by the common rules within our United Nations," she said.
Baerbock paid a visit to China from April 29 to 30, at the invitation of Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi.
U.S. withdrawals weaken global institutions, harm people worldwide: UNGA president
