China has a problem and it's not the Wuhan flu.

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"Search warrant for China, right here. Step aside"

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"China may have seriously miscalculated. For one, India is now almost politically bound to take action if the Modi government isn’t to be seen as a global walkover. Second, China’s actions in the past weeks achieved precisely the opposite of what it wanted - it has pushed India into much closer partnerships with the West. Third much more than military retaliation, India is likely to take more economic steps against China."

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Boy, I hope BSG, Guin and Gob don't suffer at all in the war between two such important teabag countries!
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:
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Boy, I hope BSG, Guin and Gob don't suffer at all in the war between two such important teabag countries!
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MajGenl.Meade wrote:
Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:54 am
Boy, I hope BSG, Guin and Gob don't suffer at all in the war between two such important teabag countries!
I can’t bear to be forced to choose between tea and curry.
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Millions of people in Beijing are living under renewed restrictions, as a spike in virus cases continues.

The city reported another 31 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total to 137 in the past week.

Before the recent spike, the Chinese capital had gone 57 days without a locally-transmitted case.

The outbreak is believed to have started in the massive Xinfadi food market that supplies 80% of the city's meat and vegetables.

At least 27 neighbourhoods have been classed as medium risk and one neighbourhood, near the market, is high risk.

People in medium or high-risk areas cannot leave the city. People in low-risk areas can leave, but need to test negative first.

However, getting a test is difficult - three testing stations told the BBC there were no tests available until July. Queues were seen outside other centres.

More than 1,200 flights have been cancelled to and from the city and railway services have been reduced until at least 9 July.

Primary school, middle school, and college classes are suspended, sports teams cannot play, and swimming pools and gyms are closed.

However, roads are open, and companies and factories can still work. The city is on a "level two" alert, the second-highest.
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"Given that the Qijiang is a tributary of the Yangtze River, the Three Gorges Dam will be facing its biggest test since it opened in 2003. At least one Chinese scientist, hydrologist Wang Weiluo (王維洛), is questioning the dam's integrity, given numerous cracks observed and substandard concrete used in construction.

In the tweet below, a massive cascade of water can be seen plunging off the side of a city floodwall. The Chinese netizen who posted it wrote: "The mountain city of Chongqing becomes a water city. The Three Gorges Dam is in danger.""

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And Chico could have been knocked over by a Feather.

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I'm afraid that play on words will be lost on people outside CALIFORNIA.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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And Chico could have been knocked over by a Feather.
What kind of monkey business are you up to with this?
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Get a map of CALIFORNIA and find out, Ray.

Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.


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I doubt if I could figure this out even if I looked at a CA map.

I thought you were alluding to the line in the Marx brothers movie "Monkey Business."
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Wuhan is being flooded too.

"TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After videos of flooding in cities below the vaunted Three Gorges Dam surfaced over the weekend and residents complained that they were being sacrificed to save the dam, the Chinese government on Monday (June 29) finally admitted that it had released floodwaters from its spillways for the first time this year.

On Saturday (June 27), videos began to surface on social media showing intense flooding in Hubei Province's Yichang City, which lies directly below the Three Gorges Dam. Residents suspected that the flooding was related to an emergency flood discharge from the sluices of the monster dam.

The Chinese government initially claimed that the dam was only engaged in standard "power generation" operations. However, on Monday, Beijing finally admitted that the dam had implemented its first "floodwater discharge" (洩洪) of the year and that a new wave of flooding is heading toward the Three Gorges catchment area, which covers one million km²."
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"Joint exercises by the Indian and Japanese navies in the Indian Ocean at the weekend suggest the two countries are drawing closer to face what they perceive as a common threat from China, analysts say.

While joint military exercises involving the two countries are not uncommon, the latest activity comes amid tensions both are experiencing with Beijing.
Indian and Chinese troops remain locked in a face-off along the disputed Himalayan border where 20 Indian soldiers were killed

in a recent clash with their Chinese counterparts, while Japan and China are locked in a war of words over a Japanese move to change the administrative status of the Senkaku Islands, which China claims and refers to as the Diaoyu Islands."
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"The US military "will continue to stand strong" in relation to a conflict between India and China or anywhere else, a top White House official said on Monday, after the US Navy deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea to boost its presence in the region.

Also Read: India-China standoff: Disengagement begins at three flashpoints

"The message is clear. We're not going to stand by and let China or anyone else take the reins in terms of being the most powerful, dominant force, whether it's in that region or over here," White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told Fox News."
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"(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration rejected China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea, reversing a previous policy of not taking sides in such disputes and escalating tensions with Beijing on yet another front.

The move aligns the U.S. with a 2016 ruling by a United Nations tribunal that found China’s claims to waters also contested by the Philippines were unlawful. It’s meant to push back against what the U.S. sees as an intensifying Chinese campaign to dominate the resource-rich South China Sea and smaller nations in the region.

“We are making clear: Beijing’s claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a statement Monday.

In the past, the U.S. largely limited itself to calling for ensuring “freedom of navigation” in the contested waterway, which is critical for global trade routes, while stopping short of taking a position on specific claims. China has proceeded nonetheless, engaging in a years-long campaign to build bases and other outposts on shoals, reefs and rock outcroppings as a way of deepening its claims.

China on Tuesday said the U.S. statement “neglected the history and facts” around issues concerning the South China Sea."
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If anyone says Stormy Waters, Trump will want to settle with an under-the-counter payoff.
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"Xi Jinping sends in army

Rains have been continuous in many parts of China since mid-June and alerts have been issued on 433 rivers in total, officials from the Ministry of Water Resources said.

Floods rose to the roof in many cities and towns. President Xi Jinping called on authorities and the army to mobilize for the rescue and resettlement of residents.

"China has entered the critical period for flood control," Xi said.

Flooding has been a major threat to much of central China for centuries, but experts say the widespread construction of dams in recent decades have cut off connections between rivers, lakes and floodplains and have exacerbated flooding.

The rapid melting of the Himalayan glaciers due to climate change may also be a cause of more dangerous summer flooding."
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But, of course Trump assure us that climate change is a hoax, almost as big a hoax as covid 19.

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