[drop 50 and fire for effect]

Mao killed about 40 million - 600K will be an anemic response...

To be fair, during the Great Leap Forward (mid 1950's) an estimated 20-40 million people died, but from incompetence, not malice. Mao didn't try to kill them, but didn't particularly care that they died. He thought that a famine was a small price to pay to advance global revolutionary theory.

[griffin]

?? What world are you from???

[ssfromla]

So true.

Have you seen how those floods are happening in China at this moment? There is no help going out to those people. Some are stuck in their homes with water and dams are breaking further down stream as the water pushes.

I do believe that the government caused the floods to deal with those rural peasants permanently. If they didn't cause the flood they sure are going to use it to their advantage and get rid of more of their people (they think dead weight)much like they did when they locked people in their own homes to die after the Wuhan virus erupted.

The other thing that the floods are doing is they are wiping out the crops that were planted. China is now asking others to plant but it takes a while for plants to grow.

They caught the government ran agency for collecting corn and such having stockpiles of corn mixed with sand, rocks and other stuff just to make the bags of food heavier when sold. Some have been arrested but you know that they are the workers that had nothing to do with it. No one in the higher positions will ever be jailed for it.