Activity in the megacities of Guangdong, one of the most densely populated regions in the world (home to nearly 130 million people), has come to a halt amid warnings of imminent floods, cyclonic surges of up to five meters,

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Extreme weather overseas can also cause indirect losses in China. A separate paper we published this year, looking at droughts, floods and storms between 2009 and 2019, found that 17 per cent of China’s attributable losses arose from incidents overseas, causing indirect losses of US$4 billion a year.

Typhoon Ragasa triggered a barrier lake collapse in Taiwan’s Hualien, killing 14 and leaving 129 missing. Floods swept away bridges, trapped villages, and forced mass evacuations as troops joined rescue efforts.

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A weakened Tropical Cyclone Ragasa pushed west along the southern Chinese coast toward Vietnam on Thursday after flooding streets and homes in the economic hub of Guangdong province and causing deaths in Taiwan and the Philippines earlier in the week.