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Chinese island on Yangtze River devastated by 1998 floods faces a repeat of history

SCMP, 14 Jul 2020
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The great flood of 1998 devastated the town of Jiangzhou which sits on an island in the middle of China's Yangtze River. More than two decades later in the summer of 2020, the island's residents are bracing for history to repeat itself as the waterway floods again, after already bringing widespread devastation to eastern and southern China.

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