Chenzhou City has a population of 4.1 million. That’s larger than the city of Los Angeles. I cannot imagine how anyone says that China is anything but a third-world country. She is choking on her own pollution, running out of water, and burdened with an archaic government structure that is more interested in maintaining its grip on power than truly helping its people.
Not much different from politicians here.
“...and burdened with an archaic government structure that is more interested in maintaining its grip on power than truly helping its people.”
In other words, just like us. ;-<
The difference is that down in the SE Hunan province (where Chenzhou is based), the low temperature during winter is usually no lower than 14 deg C - about 55 degrees. A month of freezing weather and snow has pushed the systems beyond the limit.
Imagine what would happen if Miami was hit by 45 days of freezing weather and snow. After a month, things would be a mess.
Now take that to be the entire state of Florida and the Gulf Coast and all of Southern California.
What China's facing right now is extremely rare; the grandmother of my Chinese office manager has lived her entire 87 years in Shanghai, and has NEVER seen a year where they got more than 3-4 days of snow, let alone the 40 they have had so far.
I guess you take glee in the mudslides that hit Mexico last year, too, though...
” . . . I cannot imagine how anyone says that China is anything but a third-world country. She is choking on her own pollution, running out of water, and burdened with an archaic government structure that is more interested in maintaining its grip on power than truly helping its people.”