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China Still Exists; Beijing’s Doomsday Problem Persists

The People’s Republic of China, like the rest of the world, still existed as of 19:30 PST on December 21st, 2012. U.F.O.-watchers had gathered in Hunan, anti-cult organisations had issued reassuring text messages, and the United Nations’ had denied on its official Sina Weibo account that it sold tickets for an ark. Meanwhile, the number of ‘Almighty God’ “cultists̶