CHINA — A LONG-WINDOW RIVERINE SIGNAL, AND A FIGURE THAT IS NINE DAYS OLD

A cross-agency board carries an orange riverine signal for China across a long August-September window — read as a lead, never as an authority. The widely circulated figures of about 31,000 evacuated and 452 mm on Hainan trace to reporting of Sep 13 and 14 and are re-dated here as roughly nine-day-old context, not today's event. The national pages were not reachable this run, so no fresh dated product verifies a current figure and none is asserted. There is also no active typhoon affecting the country. The row is deliberately thin and is marked reported rather than confirmed, because the only thing standing behind it is a relayed board and a dated news vintage: getting a number's vintage wrong is how old data is laundered into current certainty.

22 turning points on record since Aug 8 — the 8 most recent shown.

Two rows whose correction this morning is a date rather than a number.

searched 34 vetted voices and the open field — nothing said about this system cleared the screen.