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    1. The answer has been up for ten minutes and already multiple comments of raving hatred for the Chinese. Good grief.

    2. Every comment that talks ill of China gets down voted. Just how many bots are policing this post?

    3. Darker areas have different topologies and plant cover, they are not burned areas. You can even see the darker area on the low res section of the upper left side of the map.

    4. Serious_Number3154 on

      每年都有几十次火灾蔓延,能没有准备?都有阻燃带,但是还是会有些着火的草顺着风飞越。

    5. Total_Philosopher_89 on

      Could there be another reason for this? The scale of this seems huge. Geography help in anyway?

    6. Or the border is drawn following the hill/mountain, that’s why we see the stark difference between topology

    7. The fire was started by japanese telecom executives around the only place near the border where of all the mongolia-china borderlines, it’s 3 sides china and one side mongolia. Also it’s the place where the Battle of Nomonhan was fought, when japan suffered heavy loss from soviet.

      Japan seems to be really fixated on this place a lot because a couple years ago, they had a quite popular espionage tv series which set the backdrop also in this area. The plot didn’t specify the countries involved but it’s mogolia and china by all the tell signs.

    8. LelandTurbo0620 on

      Saw a video about this shared on Xiaohongshu, apparently it’s an annual tradition for Mongolians to burn crops to celebrate a yearly harvest or something, and the video complained about how massive amounts of resources are spent every year to compensate for this “tradition”

    9. This isn’t that unusual, there’s a road running along the border to allow them to patrol the border. Roads are great fire breaks for grass fires, and firefighters can use the road for quick access to spot fires.

      This isn’t a China good or China bad thing, it’s just how you fight grass fires with existing fire breaks.

    10. Successful_Cap_2675 on

      Whenever the keyword is mentioned, CIA funded bots will flood the comment section lol

    11. For every bot comment on this post, there are like 4 comments complaining about how many bot comments there are.

    12. Joeyjackhammer on

      they almost had to rely on “Ole Reliable” to keep the Mongolian-born threat at bay.

    13. EmergencyUnlucky1617 on

      It looks like the Chinese side is just desert. Don’t think sands can burn by itself.