China update

StrategyPage has a long post on what is going on in China.

The first part is about the fight against corruption, and pollution (!) that is causing health problems there.

and lots of stuff about various military and border issues.

President Obama pressured the Philippines under the previous president not to defend the reefs in the West Philippine sea, but take it to court and ignore China's building islands (and wrecking the ecology there). Guess what? They now have missiles there, to take down ships and planes, and electronic warfare stuff too.

well, it's only our fish and our natural gas fields, but this will let them block all ship traffic from the Middle East to Japan and Korea. Surprise!

and toward the end is a little covered story: that the mountain over the nuclear testing site in North Korea has collapsed and that there has been a radiation leak...and the Chinese are placing monitors around the border so they can evacuate locals if the mountain collapses more and releases more radiation.

and this snippet about the "invisible man", the overseas workers. Yes, China has them and they send money home to help their famlies.

The Chinese economy is large in so many ways. For example during 2017 China received $64 billion in remittances from Chinese living abroad. This was the second largest amount for any nation in the world. The world leader is India, which received $69 billion in 2017 closely followed by China with $64 billion, the Philippines $33 billion, Mexico $31 billion and Nigeria $22 billion.