I am somewhat surprised that there has been no mention of the disaster that is unfolding right now in China. They have received two years worth of rain, in just two days. The worst flooding in the recorded history of China. Entire villages and towns downstream from Beijing have been washed away, due to all the flood gates being opened in order to try to spare Beijing. There is no way to accurately assess the loss of life, but based on the video footage I have seen, it could potentially be in the millions. Water is overflowing the 3 Gorges Dam. The destruction of infrastructure, crops and homes, is absolutely devastating. This is going to have a fatal impact upon China's economy, and will have a ripple effect on economies around the world. There is a virtual media blackout concerning this biblical disaster. I wept as I watched this tragedy destroying the lives and property of so many. We are powerless in the face of Nature's whims. Although the Chinese government has tried to block the release of any video of this horror, there are plenty of them on YouTube. Watch the Water. Pray for the people of China.
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This forum is really behind on the China stories in general. If you want to know what the next plan for the US is, watch China. It's the fascist testing ground, it's the big fish in the world economy next to us, and their comrade is currently President.
That's why I used to sticky China news as a mod as soon as I found them. Just goes to show you, that GAW shouldn't be one's only source of news. A balanced news diet is optimal.
You can always be pigeon holed into groupthink, even here.
Um, be careful there. From what I've seen, once I started digging, is that the Uighur were used by USAID to start a bit of a ruckus in the Western provinces. The classic playbook of Muslim radicals, building wee bombs and killing a few merchants.
Realizing the problem, the central government stepped in, and started technical institutes (and yes, they are allowed to learn from the Koran there as well, so the anti-religious narrative is bunkum). The Uighurs who were loudest, could not get jobs due to a lack of education - so were essentially disaffected yoof, like some could not even read. The main thrust was to teach Mandarin and a trade to those people, and that is being touted as 'oppression' in work-camps, by the subversion groups, and Non-profits.
Mandarin has been the lingua franca in China for millennia, it's how they managed to run a bureaucracy for so long. There are so many languages in that country, I don't think that they have all been documented. Every city has a different language, there are even suburbs that differ. Any kid in school immediately becomes bi-lingual, if not tri-lingual, if they also learn English. But it seems that the 'West' thinks learning a lingua franca and a trade is 'oppression'. Even as Dutch kids are taught French, English and German, if not Latin and Greek as well.