One of the most remarkable episodes of Chinese history was out the Qing Dynasty managed to doggedly cling to power despite a century of disasters and defeats. Will the Chinese Communist Party have the same resilience?
As documented by The China Show (“the real China show!”), the past week has been a rough one for China, with multiple large-scale flooding incidents, building collapses and industrial accidents/fires that – if they happened in the United States – would be global headline news.
The flooding is particularly devastating, with the mainland being battered by two typhoons which dumped immense amounts of rain on a clearly inadequate drainage system. The scope of the disasters are not fully known due the CCP’s practice of silencing bad news stories and punishing truth-tellers. According to the government massive flooding that sweeps away whole towns produces deaths only in the low double digits.
In the real world, thousands if not tens of thousands have died or been injured with even more displaced. Washed out road and railroads have crippled the local economy and the massive amounts of ruined cars and trucks likewise has to make some sort of impact.
And as the show points out, it’s not just in one place, it’s happening across the country. Each disaster means crop losses, dead livestock and massive infrastructure damage. Though it imagines itself a first-world nation, Communist China is still very underdeveloped, with his glow-in-the-dark cities far outstripped by the impovrished countryside.
One of the factors I intend to address regarding an invasion of Taiwan is what would happen if a typhoon showed up at the wrong moment.
Again, it’s impossible to know exactly the extent of the economic loss, but after enough factors burn down and city centers are flooded or washed away, something had got to give.
Chateau Lloyd 
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