290: Dry Beds Equals No Egg Rolls

1806 HRS, Additional Show Notes Pending.
 
China, China, China - Let's peel back a few of the current trials and tribulations that grips China. 

1. Link - China committed genocide against Uyghurs, independent tribunal rules
2. Link - Uyghur Genocide in China: What We Know About the Republic’s Concentration Camps
3. Link - “To Make Us Slowly Disappear”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on the Uyghurs
4. Link - “Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots”
   China’s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims
5. Link - China’s Record Drought Is Drying Rivers and Feeding Its Coal Habit
6. Link - China drought causes Yangtze to dry up, sparking shortage of hydropower
7. Link - China's summer records
8. Link - China water scarcity
9. Link - 34 Unforgettable Photos Of China’s Massive, Uninhabited Ghost Cities
10. Link - Under-occupied developments in China
11. Link - The Story of China's Ghost Cities and Its 65 Million Empty Homes
12. Link - Why China's infamous 'ghost cities' face a new future
13. Link - Cities Lost In Limbo: Are China’s Ghost Cities Here To Stay?
14. Link - The legacy of Enron in California’s power challenges today
15. Link - Tapes reveal Enron's secret role in California's power blackouts
16. Link - Genesis of recall rooted in California energy crisis
17. Link - Arnold’s Enron Connection
18. Link - Receding water levels of China's Yangtze reveal ancient Buddhist statues
19. Link - Plunging Waters in China’s Yangtze River Reveal Trio of Buddhist Statues
20. Link - River in China Dries Up, Revealing 600-Year-Old Buddhist Statues
21. Link - Taiwan in Time: Cultural counterattack
22. Link - TAIWAN'S RESPONSE TO THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
23. Link - Keeping traditional Chinese culture alive
24. Link - To what extent has Taiwan preserved Chinese culture better than China?
25. Link - China growing its influence in US using media ecosystem
26. Link - Limiting Chinese Influence Operations
27. Link - CCP buys media influence by paying millions to US dailies, m ..
28. Link - Beijing's Global Megaphone
29. Link - Mandate of Heaven
30. Link - State atheism - NOTE: Do not believe the overwhelming number of search results that spew the inaccurate fact that Putin allows religious services to flourish.  
31. Link - Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
32. Link - If you collect books but never get around to reading them, there's a word for that
33. Link - Another Dictator Is Having a Bad Year
34. Link - President Xi Jinping is set to extend his 10-year rule in 2022. This is how China has transformed under his reign
35. Link - Justin Trudeau said he admired China’s dictatorship. Canadians should have believed him
36. Link - China in Xi’s “New Era”: The Return to Personalistic Rule
37. Link - Gazprom & Slums
38. Link - China’s Overextended Real Estate Sector Is a Systemic Problem
39. Link - Here’s where China’s real estate troubles could spill over
40. Link - Analysis: Wealth shock - property bust in small Chinese cities rattles households
41. Link - Why China's crumbling real estate sector has the world on edge
42. Link - Lies, damn lies, and Chinese statistics
43. Link - SEC Charges Chinese Company and Executives with Lying About Asset Values and Use of IPO Proceeds
44. Link - Stay on Guard When Investing in China, Expert Says. ‘Expect to Be Blindsided Again.’