[cwmma]

disasters in china tend to operate at just a whole different scale then ones in the west, like take the Taiping Rebellion, by some counts the 2nd deadliest modern war and it's not very well known in the west.

[acidburnNSA]

But Chernobyl was in the Soviet Union. This was considered not the west, right?

[cwmma]

I was suggesting why the Chinese disasters may have gotten less play in the west