In the game of war it is customary for combatants to assert that their own plays are God-guided, that the opposition's quarterback is the Devil. Last week, when diabolical forces of naturerains & flood washed out those of man in central China, the ground was no sooner covered with muddy water than the air was filled with mutual recriminations.
For the Yellow River to flood is nothing new. Its Chinese name, Hwang Ho, is taken from hwang tu, the "yellow dirt" which it carries down in great quantity from Shansi and Shensi. This...
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