Pharoah didn’t take the hint and I doubt Xi will.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of murderous people.
Keeping an eye on Three Gorges Dam...
The Mandate of Heaven (Chinese: 天命; pinyin: Tiānmìng; Wade–Giles: T'ien-ming, literally "Heaven's will") is a Chinese political and religious teaching that was used in ancient and imperial China to justify the rule of the King or Emperor of China. According to this belief, Heaven (天, Tian) — which embodies the natural order and will of the universe — bestows the mandate on a just ruler of China, the "Son of Heaven" of the "Celestial Empire". If a ruler was overthrown, this was interpreted as an indication that the ruler was unworthy, and had lost the mandate. It was also a common belief that natural disasters such as famine and flood were divine retributions bearing signs of Heaven's displeasure with the ruler, so there would often be revolts following major disasters as the people saw these calamities as signs that the Mandate of Heaven had been withdrawn.
Mandate of Heaven - Wikipedia
I’ve been to Yangshou - it’s a cool little tourist trap town on the Li River, popular with Japanese and Korean visitors. That picture is sad.
See, see! Trump’s racist, white supremacist remarks again!
Assuming Trump is re-elected, there is a MAGA mega disaster headed their way.
They asking for
American Aid???
My give a damn is busted.
50,000,000 effected out of 1,400,000,000? Pfft. That is probably a rounding error in China.
Trump must be using Bush’s weather machine that cause Katrina.
50 million? To them, that’s like North Dakota!!!
(OK, not quite...)
No mention made of of swarming locust and cases of bubonic plague here and there.
Xi, don’t wait for the Yangtze to turn red and start hauling ass when the first frog appears.
China has been trying to feed 21% of the earth population on less than 8% of the earth’s total land mass. If the farmland goes under water, they starve....period. So their “disasters” are just getting started. And if they can’t produce enough food to suffice their population, they will have to go looking for it. They better not go north into Russia.
rwood
The ChiComs have lost the ‘Mandate of Heaven’.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch...../s
Close to 50 million Chinese have suffered from some form of natural catastrophe in the first half of 2020, according to China’s emergency management authorities. Official tallies stated that the disasters have left 271 missing or dead, and 914,000 people urgently evacuated, but the true numbers are likely far higher, given authorities’ tendency to cover up information.
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Small numbers in China. Like saying 10 Americans were affected by a natural disaster
The eventual result will be more and more Chinese will decide the government has lost the “Mandate of Heaven”.