I fail to see why. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
I can see every fruitcake from Toledo to Timbuktu going off their meds long enough to claim that it's global warming... or CO2 emmisions... or too much silica... or deforestation in South America... the usual litany of tiny people without a clue of the magnitude of geologic and solar system precesses, never mind cosmic ones.
China has no more control over this type of Gaia hissy fits than the U.S.A. does. I can think of other reasons that will be screamed out incoherently and in the usual panic, but suffice to say we are sharing a curious and unexpected phenomenon. I am looking forward to discussing it with the more rational members of the human race.
karst topography ?
Chinese may end up keep moving the construction site for Olympic venues, running up construction cost and further and further behind schedule. That was what I was referring to.