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[^1]\n\nThe Chinese Embassy in Argentina issued a statement in August 2025 urging an Argentine official from President Javier Milei's administration to stop spreading ill-intentioned speculation that blames the Chinese Communist Party for the flash flood tragedy in Nepal. [^2]\n\nJuan Pablo Carrera, the Digital Communications Minister of the Argentine Presidency, posted on social media on 2026-06-01 that the Nepal floods were caused by the Chinese Communist Party and state-owned enterprises failing to manage a hydroelectric facility near glaciers. [^3]\n\nAccording to news reports, the death toll from the Nepal disaster was 1,000 as of a Tuesday morning in August 2025, with almost 4,000 people still missing. [^4]\n\nCarreira claimed that the Chinese company caused the glacier's collapse and that the resulting massive mudslide and flooding killed more than 2,500 Nepalese in a matter of seconds. [^5]\n\nJuan Pablo Carrera explicitly linked the Nepal disaster to the ideology of communism, stating that communism kills people. [^6]\n\nThe Chinese embassy in Argentina issued a statement on 2026-06-01 condemning Juan Pablo Carrera's claims as malicious rumors driven by biased ideological prejudice. [^7]\n\nThe Chinese embassy stated that experts and official institutions from China and Nepal have already investigated the cause of the accident and confirmed it was a glacier collapse within Nepalese territory. 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