150 or so are dead unfortunately. But the situation is under control and we are working on it, together with our neighbors (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands), as it should be.
There is an argument that authoritarian governments can react to crises better than free nations because there is no need for a committee meeting or vote to decide what to do.
The problem with the CCP is that since party officials are punished for reporting on bad things, the initial response to a bad event is to try to hide the problem, not to fix the problem.
In China, the party was slow to close the subways for instance.
I certainly wouldn't trust the CCP's official death tally. I trust Germany to accurately report casualties and damages.
EDIT: I wrote my comment only halfway through
@Warden , but man it keeps getting worse and more sobering.
They are quick to suppress civilians taking pictures of the damage but are slow to save lives! An utter refusal to implement flood control infrastructure in the first place.
This is how little the CCP values the lives of loyal Han Chinese. Imagine how little they value the lives of their ethnic minorities. Imagine how little they value the lives of strangers or competitors. Winnie the Pooh is no better than Mao who said he was okay with losing a third of the population.
In the minds of the CCP and the PLA, China is at war with the West. We are their enemies. More politicians need to understand that we are in still in the midst of a Cold War with inhuman murderers.