Public sentiment is characterized by significant concern and criticism regarding the response to the flooding situation in Gansu Province. Commenters express empathy for the affected victims and emphasize the urgent need for improved government actions and infrastructure to mitigate future disasters, while also critiquing China's overall handling of natural disasters and climate change issues.

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willynillywitty

Bro those brake lights! Must have come in hella quick

jetstobrazil

Substantial_Diver_34

Wow, that water is so powerful. That’s terrifying. I hope the people in those cars are okay but yeah….

Odd_Alternative_1003

ReturnMeToHell

That’s a lot of damage. My goodness it looks like Day after tomorrow

MrB3RG

Honda_TypeR

Sorry-Dependent-4339

syngltrkmnd

Too much economic sprawl. You always have to obey the water

sleepiestOracle

Is this an area impacted by the three rivers damn?

johnnyg883

I wonder if it has flooded like that before. Looks fairly unprecedented in the mall.

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MrNASM

I'm terrified of living near a river. These events are going to keep happening

missdui

They were too busy thinking about how, they have failed to consider what it...

Canukian84

morgazmo99

ClubMateCola

The way those cars just slot down into that garage is like Disneyland ride to hell.

robotdaddyv721

gantousaboutraad

Sir, you can't park there.

Water: let me bring you to the parking lot

red-panda-returns

Wise to rent on 3rd floor or higher. I use to live in an area of my country that did that. You wanted 3+ floor or higher.

Necessary_Baker_7458

holy shit i saw a flood alert of rongjiang recently but had no idea it was this bad

actiniumosu

bsports2

Remarkable-Aioli30

ElevenEleven1010

Even the drain pipes were like "we're out!"

Hylinus

UnknowSoldier64c

SimplyBoobastic

Astrobratt

westbrodie

stevo760

YuMonkeyButt

Positive_Damage2022

Full_Rope9335

I wonder if there's any way that this development could have been designed with better or different drainage to make a situation like this less severe.

program13001207test

This is crazy, so many floods going on around the world … something’s wrong and no one is doing anything about it

Tone_Gaia

Well now, it looks like Mother Earth is having a little payback to China’s decades of ecological destruction in the name of economic growth. Sorry, not sorry.

Ok-Willow-7012

The great cleanse. Nature is healing the earth

SirSquigglious

Times like this we should ban together and go help china if they need it.

1370055

China just out does themselves with disasters.

CreamWif

They’ll have all that water drained, roads fixed, building damage repaired all in under 24 hours. 
😂

mytren

🕊🌿🍃Matthew 4:17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 🕊🌿🍃

TranslatorOpening280

This is how Willy Wonka mixes his chocolate now

DopeZulla3000

Rongjiang, Guizhou Province is a small backward county in a backward province in China, with a per capita GDP of US$3,797.

ytzfLZ

Don't swim in contaminated water if it's not necessary, just don't.

Medical-Ice-2330

Yikes over flowing streets mean sewage everywhere. This is nuts and sad at the same time .

Bigchunky_Boy

What I really want to know. How do I get my car on stilts.

srhodes22

That is in fact a river valley though so…

LVDarth

I mean clearly it’s flooding, but apocalyptic?   That’s a river flowing through the middle of town and it’s 1-2’ above its banks you can see the railings still fit the bridge and the roads along the banks.

cybercuzco

deepstatelady

This is costing China **billions**. It's unsustainable, surely.

Hephaestus1816

Wouldn't this fall under bad construction planning tho?

CompetitivePenalty86

OMG. My family lives near the Mississippi river. Flooding is awful. Sorry they are going through this.

honorcheese

TIL: "Apocalyptic" means things are pretty much normal.

Logical_Hospital2769

I don't think you understand the meaning of the word "apocalypse ".

Squirrel_Avenger80

looks like somebody lost the mandate of heaven

DefaultName919

NeighborhoodNew3904

flooding in huaiji guangdong this week as well

Hilarious how racist americans think natural disasters are caused by the Chinese themselves and nothing ever ever happens in america.

DarthDork73

This is not apocalyptic. This is what happens when you pave everything and the ground can no longer absorb the water.

CQB06

NewspaperLumpy8501

That’s why China is Collectivism society rather than Individualism one.

dufutur

This will come back to bite the CCP's ass when there is little to no compensation for the victims in China.

William_Ce

This is basically what-about-ism done by the Chinese government to try to distract public attention from their failures.

Berkamin

The Communist Chinese regime has held the citizens of China in a state of ideological captivity for decades. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has employed extensive measures to control information and suppress dissent. Approximately 98% of Chinese citizens are unaware of the full scope of their own national history and current events due to a lifetime of exposure to state-controlled propaganda. From infancy, individuals are conditioned to accept the CCP's narrative as absolute truth, leaving little room for independent thought or inquiry.

Traditional forms of media such as newspapers, radio, and television are tightly regulated, and only present content that aligns with government policy. Even with the advent of the internet, the CCP has developed sophisticated systems of surveillance and censorship, such as the Great Firewall, to filter information and block external sources. In place of open discourse, the regime disseminates both factual and fabricated stories that support its agenda, often portraying Western countries, particularly the United States, as antagonistic threats. This tactic diverts attention from internal issues such as economic inequality, human rights abuses, and corruption.

Furthermore, the regime has repeatedly exploited historical events, particularly Japanese wartime atrocities, to stoke nationalist sentiment whenever domestic unrest threatens stability. This strategy has been used to deflect criticism and rally public support under the guise of patriotic unity.

The foundation of the CCP's power lies in deception, censorship, and repression. It is a regime that was never democratically elected, and thus lacks legitimate consent from the Chinese populace. The Chinese people have been held hostage under this authoritarian system, deprived of basic freedoms and the right to self-determination. The international community must remain vigilant and critical of the CCP, recognizing the stark difference between the people of China and the oppressive government that claims to represent them.

Additional-Hour-3957

Problem with China that they won't acknowledge problems or do anything about it. Just hide it and point fingers.

Short fixes gives long term problems for many generations. Which cost China resources and power.

Cyberjin

It’s a standard CCP propaganda approach. And it’s more proactive than just responding to a catastrophe that’s happened within the PRC. Any kind of disaster occurring in the West is given mass coverage for several days.

Single-Promise-5469

Absolutely laughable if anyone anywhere thinks the flint Michigan situation was handled well or timely

SpectTheDobe

You know something's really bad in China when they start allowing and encouraging Chinese citizens to hate Japan actively.  That's when things are really bad 

Reminding them about lead in the water is just level 3, it's not level one.  And guess what, just like in the United States how Trump supporters are going to forget about the Epstein list in about one week, Chinese citizens will forget about the lead

RussellZyskey4949

Unlikely to be whataboutism. Ccp modus operandi is to remove any related information. There is no way they deliberately use a similar lead poisoning story to distract. It is probably chinese netizen using negative US news with lead poisoning to bypass censorship and keep the "lead poisoning" topic alive in online forums.

Informal_Alarm_5369

12 people did not "die from lead poisoning." 12 people during this died of Legionnaires' Disease, though it was never definitively traced to the water crisis.

Ninetwentyeight928

Not much relation, one was a city-wide problem, the other a single KG.

jvproton

yisuiyikurong

Ok-Breakfast-3742

Like they could protest anything or get a single penny from their gov 😅 how is there anything point to do whataboutism here

Lokdora

If they knew the danger from seeing flint Michigan,  why on earth didn't they fix their own tap water? One town out of millions and America put it in the news and fixed it. China has no drinkable water anywhere.  

Ancient-Tax-8129

To be fair, the US has absolutely no right to have this issue.

bluelifesacrifice

Severe flooding caused by continuous heavy rainfall in Gansu Province, China, has resulted in at least 10 deaths and 33 people missing.

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