The flooding was not only a natural disaster, but also a man-made disaster by Chinese Communist officials.
—
Making man-made disasters since 1950; its what they do best.
A government that murders tens or hundreds of millions of its own citizens for purely political reasons is capable of anything.
Anything.
If you told me they released flood waters that they knew would kill one hundred thousand people so they could avoid the international humiliation of seeing one of their major dams fail, I wouldn’t even bat an eye of doubt.