That would be a blessing to the world if it failed. The communist party in China would be utterly humiliated in front of the world.
Their incompetence would be on full display in the failure AND in their response.
It would set them back decades.
Yeah but then we’d have to spend weeks listening to the same COVID fear mongers predict that food costs here will skyrocket and famine will be cast across the land. I’d love to see God strike his anger down on China but the pearl clutching here is almost not worth it....
There will be huge loss of human and animal life if it fails. But life is cheap to Chi-Coms. (They eat cats, don’t they?)
“That would be a blessing to the world if it failed. The communist party in China would be utterly humiliated in front of the world.”
Based on the Wuhan Flu recent history, MSCNN will blame Trump (via Climate Change here), and CCP will gain ground with a giant distraction from atrocities in the Catholic Church in China, trade agreement disparities, Hong Kong, and Hunter Biden.
Their incompetence would be on full display in the failure AND in their response.
Trying to cover up what was to become the deadliest pandemic since Spanish Influenza instead of taking decisive action to stop Covid in its tracks was not humiliating enough?
It is inevitable that sooner or later something REALLY BIG built by this inherently incompetent system fails.
The bursting of the Three Gorges Dam will probably be the end of the CCP. Xi realizes that his hold is tenuous and that makes this a very dangerous time for the whole world (i.e., war).
Mediocrity and corruption. What a winning combination!;-)
No it would make them very very dangerous.
The dam will not fail.
The hydrologists seem to have the situation under control and are regulating flows to impound upstream and then release as required to reduce the effects downstream
There are dikes upstream that have purposely been breached to allow areas to be flooded thus reducing the pressure on the dam.
They are now experiencing the third flood which is apparently greater than the first two and in expectation have opened 9 flood gates to reduce impoundment volume in anticipation of the coming flood.
However, the flood damage is beyond catastrophic already . China has build heavily populated areas directly in the flood plain. Although few people have actually died, millions, perhaps even tens of millions are displaced and homeless. The number of automobiles and trucks destroyed is uncountable. The flood plain is largely croplands and the already destroyed crops in the field cannot be harvested. This includes hogs observed to be swimming in the flood.
There is a journalistic tendency to hype the Three Gorges Dam while avoiding comment on the actual flood. The monsoon still has two weeks or so to go.
One wonders if China actually has the governmental ability to save the country