Red Heat, Empty Fields: Beijing’s Crisis of Control

Across China’s agricultural heartland, the despair is mounting. In Gansu, a province known more for arid resilience than desperation, one agricultural blogger recently described the current season as the worst drought in two decades. “It hasn’t rained in three months,” she said. “If this continues, everything we planted will die.” Her losses from last year’s hailstorm were already devastating—this year’s drought may finish what the climate started. #china #chinatruths #chinanews