This thread is very good. One of the critical lessons from modern Chinese history (by which I mean post-roughly 1500) is that good governance that encourages human flourishing correlates to state legitimacy and longevity.
As Trump & Co. mull over "conditioning aid" to wildfire victims in CA, I'd say it's a good time to remind everyone that across the history of China, imperial dynasties did not fail because of natural disasters...

they failed when the govt failed to respond effectively to them.

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