Comments on: New Orleans along the Yangtze http://cominganarchy.com/2005/10/05/new-orleans-along-the-yangtze/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:05:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: sun bin http://cominganarchy.com/2005/10/05/new-orleans-along-the-yangtze/comment-page-1/#comment-32165 sun bin Thu, 06 Oct 2005 03:11:24 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1174#comment-32165 many (more) soldiers died in previous flood fighting. the difference this time is it is no longer a 'state secret' so there is progrerss in china. many (more) soldiers died in previous flood fighting.
the difference this time is it is no longer a ’state secret’

so there is progrerss in china.

]]> By: Curzon http://cominganarchy.com/2005/10/05/new-orleans-along-the-yangtze/comment-page-1/#comment-32132 Curzon Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:55:34 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1174#comment-32132 Indeed -- this probably happens a lot, and it only got in the news because it was soldiers dying, not peasants. Indeed — this probably happens a lot, and it only got in the news because it was soldiers dying, not peasants.

]]> By: Mutantfrog http://cominganarchy.com/2005/10/05/new-orleans-along-the-yangtze/comment-page-1/#comment-32110 Mutantfrog Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:30:45 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1174#comment-32110 That's hardly up there with Katrina. If anything, that's not even a remotely exceptional amount of damage for a typhoon that's hit the Chinese mainland, except it was soldiers instead of peasants being washed away, so the government cares a little more. That’s hardly up there with Katrina. If anything, that’s not even a remotely exceptional amount of damage for a typhoon that’s hit the Chinese mainland, except it was soldiers instead of peasants being washed away, so the government cares a little more.

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