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The scales of the Pakistan floods and the China drought are mind-fuckingly staggering. They're just not top-of-mind for us because for the first it's meh, poor brown people, and for the second the Communist Party of China is trying hard to restrict news coverage that makes China look bad.
Historically these things tend to happen in order in China: drought, famine, regime collapse. The last doesn't always happen, but it has happened enough times to have me paying attention.
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