Someone's gonna get jailed for revealing state secrets and embarrassing the party.
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According to the article, it's something China does regularly to waterfalls and they don't deny it.
Huangguoshu Waterfall, a famous tourist destination in the southwestern Guizhou province, has been helped by a water diversion project from a nearby dam since 2006 to maintain its flow during the dry season.
With a carefully-crafted explanation like that, it almost sounds like a positive.
If it's main value of the waterfall is tourism, and if the water is needed downstream anyway, why not start the water diversion before the waterfall? Ultimately, all China is doing is giving everyone a false sense of security by masking the impact climate change is having on them.
Ultimately, all China is doing is giving everyone a false sense of security
??? By turning a piece of infrastructure into a piece of scenic beauty ???
masking the impact climate change
China is ranked 20th globally in Net Zero emissions readiness and is exceeding its 2050 and 2060 benchmark targets. Its the world leader in nuclear energy construction, building half of all nuclear power plants in construction globally. Its the world leader in mass transit, having laid over 3000 km of new HSR since 2008. And its the world leader in NEV construction, leading the world in the phase out of ICE engines.
But they put a pipe up to the top of a waterfall in order to keep it running during dry months, so they're not taking climate change seriously?
Fake nature is the pinnacle of capitalism. Yes I include China
Literally the government doing it. How is that capitalism?
State Capitalism
a political system in which the state has control of production and the use of capital.
There is a vast resource of nearly all of humanity's collective knowledge that you can tap to learn why a govt doing something doesn't mean it's not capitalism.
Does the govt hold a monopoly on violence? Then its not capitalism
The government does not hold a monopoly on violence. You can just start punching people and they can just start punching you back.
It's illegal to punch someone unprovoked, unless you are a cop; there is no legal repercussions for law enforcement to hit you in your sexy face. So no, the monopoly still remains with the government.
It’s illegal to punch someone unprovoked, unless you are a cop
It's illegal when a cop does it, too. Although enforcement is scattershot at best. Spousal abuse statistics confirm as much.
there is no legal repercussions for law enforcement to hit you in your sexy face
Sizeable civil legal settlements suggest otherwise.
Damn son, even waterfalls in China are fake? What isn't fake in China?!
The Concentration Camps are real.
Uyghur genocide
Ha! Actually fake and gay!
Waterfalls cause rainbows.
Literally this
Untrue and joyous
Joious
You were expecting a JOJO reference, but it was me, DIO!
Everything in china is fake part 3000
Honestly that kind of phrase sounds like a remnant of the old, prejudice-clad world. Why continue with this ?
Okay
Everything in china is fake except for the Uyghur genocide part 3001