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  2. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia

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    Loans to China were suspended by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and foreign governments; [299] China's credit rating was lowered; [298] tourism revenue decreased from US$2.2 billion to US$1.8 billion; and foreign direct investment commitments were canceled. However, there was a rise in government defence spending from 8.6% in 1986, to ...

  3. List of ongoing armed conflicts - Wikipedia

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    The 13 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in the current or previous calendar year. [2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.

  4. 2024 China floods - Wikipedia

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    Several floods caused by heavy rainfall struck in China starting in Guangdong Province in April 2024. Bands of heavy rainfall in June 2024 caused water levels to rise in rivers before moving northwards to other Southeastern and Central Chinese provinces, causing significantly raised water levels in the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta, inundating many towns and cities, forcing the ...

  5. China is getting too much rain in the south and not enough ...

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    China is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in the south and a heat wave prompting fears of a drought for ...

  6. Snow, ice disrupt trips home for millions of Chinese ahead of ...

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    China's Central Meteorological Observatory predicted more rain, snow and freezing weather in the south for the first half of this week, but said conditions would improve starting Thursday. ($1 = 7 ...

  7. Operation Popeye - Wikipedia

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    Operation Popeye's goal was to increase rainfall in carefully selected areas to deny the Vietnamese enemy, namely military supply trucks, the use of roads by: [4] Softening road surfaces; Causing landslides along roadways; Washing out river crossings; Maintaining saturated soil conditions beyond the normal time span.

  8. 1938 Yellow River flood - Wikipedia

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    Japanese troops guarding Chinese refugees displaced by war and the Yellow River Flood, China Jun-Jul 1938. The immediate drowning deaths were estimated to range from 30,000 (Kuo Tai-chun, 2015) [11] [12] to 89,000 (China Academy of Sciences, 1995). [13] Estimates of total deaths resulting from floods, famine and plague varied wildly.

  9. 2023 China floods - Wikipedia

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    Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in Jinjiang, Fujian, on July 28, then rapidly weakened once inland and dissipated shortly thereafter. [3] [4] Later that afternoon, National Meteorological Center of CMA issued a red alert—the highest level warning for heavy rainfall—this was only the second time a red rainfall warning had been issued—since the warning system was formally implemented in 2010.