China evacuates 1.7M as second typhoon in a week makes landfall

At least 17 people killed in Philippines landslides; 1.7+ million evacuated from Zhejiang; 39 deaths from preceding Typhoon Maysak; thousands displaced across Japan and Taiwan.

For the second time in a single week, the coastlines of eastern China have bent beneath the weight of a major typhoon, as Bavi — a storm stretching the breadth of France — came ashore near Taizhou and Wenzhou, prompting the displacement of nearly two million people. The storm had already carved a path of grief across the Philippines, Japan, and Taiwan before reaching the Chinese mainland, where communities were still counting the losses left by Typhoon Maysak's 39 deaths. In the long human story of living alongside the sea, this moment speaks to the compounding nature of natural forces — and t

China evacuates 1.7M as second typhoon in a week makes landfall

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