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Thursday, August 29, 2013
Flooding down south
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It looks terrible and I have lots of sympathy. Of course.
ReplyDeleteIs it wrong, though, that I giggled at 'the south got hammered today'? Like 'hey baby, why don't you make like a typhoon and hammer me down south'?
I am a terrible, terrible person.
As usual the damage will be worse out in the eastern districts of the counties, up in the hills and mountains. I went down to check out Xinhua district this morning, and though the river has swollen and the rice paddies have been drowned by the rain, the roads are all perfectly navigable and the river is nowhere near bursting its levee. So far this is not Morakot II, though it could be if it keeps on raining hard enough...
ReplyDelete@Jenna: sorry luv, but that's one mental image I could have done without.
Michael, you may want to take a look at this: a new legal study, which openly claims that China's martime claims are illegal:
ReplyDeletehttp://0-journals.cambridge.org.skyline.ucdenver.edu/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=8467150&jid=AJL&volumeId=2&issueId=01&aid=8467148
or
http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/30/history-the-weak-link-in-beijings-maritime-claims