Curiously, they claim that they are able to control the weather to the extent that they will prevent rain from falling on the Olympics next summer.
Were that so, I would think it would be no big deal to stop this current “intemperate weather”.
The tech (allegedly) lets them cause rain clouds to dump before they get over the area that they want to keep dry. Might work for a city, but not a larger area.
BTW, the PLA is only 2.3 million strong? Is that a typo? I always imagined it would be MUCH bigger given their base population of over a billion!