Typhoon Dolphin bears down on China's east coast with over 1M evacuated

Each year, the sea reminds coastal civilizations of the terms under which they are permitted to remain. Typhoon Dolphin, the most powerful storm to strike China in 2026, is approaching the eastern seaboard with sustained winds of 162 kilometres an hour, having already wounded six people in Japan and darkened tens of thousands of homes. In response, more than one million people have been moved inland across four provinces — a vast, practiced choreography of survival that speaks both to the storm's ferocity and to the hard-won institutional memory of a coastline that has weathered such arrivals