Flood Report Not Allowed Amid Party Celebration

People walk along the swollen Rongjiang river after heavy rains in Rongan, in China's southern Guangxi region, on July 2, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images

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On July 1, Chinese leader Xi Jinping repeated his old slogan again on the Tower of Tiananmen Square in Beijing: “This country is its people; the people are the country.”