China’s Yangtze River is seeing its biggest flooding in the past 40 years. Almost 2,000 people have been evacuated. And for the first time in decades, floodwater has reached a the toes of a famous giant Buddha statue.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative involves two-thirds of the world’s population. It could serve as the base for the communist superpower, on land, and in the air.
In a show of force, a U.S. warship has sailed through the waters between China and Taiwan, and for the first time, crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait approaching the Chinese coastline.
And during a visit to an area hit by flood, the head of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, was received by a police official disguised as a peasant.
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