It was. Doesn't mean it will. The damn deformed, obviously damaged, and leaked. They broke dozens of levees to prevent flooding of their 600,000,000 people and tech hubs downstream. They've been hit by multiple typhoons.  Thousands of acres of farmland washed away. Dozens of cities and villages flooded. Huge damage to infrastructure. Starvation is now on the table.  Suddenly china is no longer so aggressive in the South Pacific.