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China: Weather Intervention

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 @ 03:43 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Environment, Governance, Sport, Technology
Languages:: Chinese
Special:: Olympics

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Malagasy:	Shina : Fanovana ny toetr'andro...
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This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

During the Olympics, the Beijing government created artificial rain to secure good weather for the opening and closing ceremonies. Lui Li said that if the government had plan to intervene the weather, it should have forecasted it to the people.

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