China's capital has recorded its heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years over the past few days as remnants of Typhoon Doksuri deluged the region, turning streets into canals where emergency crews used rubber boats to rescue stranded residents. The city recorded 29.3 inches of rain between Saturday and Wednesday morning.
China is talking about its pollution problem, but its equally serious class problem remains obscured behind the haze. Smog leapt to the forefront of Chinese national discourse after the February 28 release of "Under the Dome," a 103-minute-long documentary quickly hailed as China’s version of An Inconvenient Truth. In the film, which immediately went viral on social media and
Chinese authorities plan to conduct mass testing to Beijing's roughly 20 million population, forcing residents to panic buy supplies, such as necessities in fear of stringent lockdowns. The situation comes as the country faces a new outbreak of the coronavirus that has challenged President Xi Jinping's zero-COVID strategy.
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