Critical thread. If the Three Gorges Dam fails, every single one of China’s plans for world dominance will come to an end. It won’t have an economy left as every major city critical to its manufacturing, military, science, technology, and trade, would drown.

The end of China. https://twitter.com/man_integrated/status/1287836332883050498

It would be a tragedy of unparalleled scale in human history. Much of the world depends on China’s agricultural exports, medicine, and other critical supply chains. Millions would starve and more would die of preventable illnesses.

That’s what you get for depending on China.

There are multiple nuclear power plants in the path of the floods, if it breaks. The devastation would dwarf Chernobyl and Fukushima.