Over 100,000 Chinese Evacuated As Floods Continue Pressuring Three Gorges Dam
(www.zerohedge.com)
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Between locust, pestilence, and floods, it is not a good year for Xinnie the Pooh.
Historically China goes through cycles of empire and a mess of small kingdoms. There is a lot of internal division in the CCP right now. The dam bursting would be the end of the gongfei.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_bandit
TIL that's fucking lolsome
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The term gongfei or 共匪(I'm trusting wikipedia that those are the right characters) used to be shadow banned on youtube. Google translate came back with 'gangster' for a while, but now it just says 'communist' and leaves off the bandit. The gongfei control the internet.
If the dam goes it'll be the China's fabled Mandate from Heaven for Xi.
A simulation of what could happen in the event of a total collapse made the rounds about a month ago. If that thing collapses it can lay waste to pretty much every downstream city within about 1000 miles.
Will it collapse like that? Who knows.
Considering the safety and construction procedures China is known for there is probably a strong possibility of collapse.
About 5 hours before Wuhan goes under wasn't it? Iirc it's pretty much valleys from the dam to Wuhan province, and there's a lot of tonnage back there
From the People's Daily, China twitter link in the ZH article
"At least 250,000 residents have been relocated to safe places" - https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1296274342922264576
I'm really split. At the same time, I really want the dam to burst so that the communist bandits get devoured by their own citizens for their evil and incompetence.
But at the same time, I know that millions of people will suffer, so I don't want that to happen. The Chinese people are victims of the CCP, they didn't choose who governs them.
They choose in the same way we do, by not resisting sufficiently to set themselves free.
I call that win-win diplomacy.
Hope those ravenous beasts go extinct.
ZeroHedge is overstating the threat to the dam itself: the graph included in the article shows a current water level of approximately 160 metres. This is still well within the dam's usual operating parameters of 145 to 175 meters over the dry/wet seasonal cycle.