Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.

When the climate became arid after 14 CE, famine and instances of cannibalism increased. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

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Both China and Russia play a dubious role in the conflict. Bitte passen Sie die Einstellungen an. In a recent report, the U.N. has warned that Rakhine in western Myanmar is threatened by famine.

This is similar to how Chinese news platforms and apps, which are used worldwide, refrain from publishing negative news about China.