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1	''China Tidal Wave'' (original name 黃禍, lit. Yellow Peril) is a 1992 novel (the English translation appeared in 2008) by Wang Lixiong, a Chinese dissident and environmentalist. It is a [[NightmareFuel disturbingly plausible]] examination of what might happen if a country with over a billion people and hundreds of nuclear warheads were to become a failed state.
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4	!!This novel provides examples of:
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6	* ApocalypseHow: China is a regional Class 1 fairly early into the novel. [[spoiler: It's a global Class 1 - at best - by the end, with many parts of the world solidly in Class 2 territory]].
7	* AuthorTract: Besides his environmentalism, the author clearly seems to be advocating for the Multi-Level Election System.
8	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The Democracy Front and the People's Front had presumably been wishing for the fall of the Communist government for years. When it happens in a disorderly manner, though...
9	%%* TheChessmaster: Wang Feng is a textbook example.
10	* DemocracyIsBad: Not really an example, but the proponents of the Multi-Level Election System argue that ''conventional'' representative democracy is indeed bad, partly because it is ill-equipped to deal with emergencies. The Communists, of course, play this trope straight.
11	* GreenAesop: Wang's environmentalist views are clear throughout the novel.
12	* TheGreatFlood: One of the main triggering events for the calamity that envelops China [[spoiler: and eventually the world]]. A ''hundred million people'' are made homeless by flooding on the Yellow River.
13	* NukeEm: Starts when the beleaguered mainland destroys Taipei. Taiwanese agents seize missile silos on the mainland, and then [[FromBadToWorse it just gets worse and worse after that]].
14	%%* ProfessionalKiller: The Major.
15	%%* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Poor, poor Chen Pan]].
16	* WeAreStrugglingTogether: The Democracy Front and the People's Front hate each other almost as much as they hate the Communists.

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