The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. August 28, 2017 China Hit by a Severe Tropical Storm, Days After Historic Typhoon Kills 22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern China is also reeling from extreme weather as a severe tropical storm made landfall on Sunday, only days after a historic typhoon killed 22 people. Typhoon Hato was the fiercest typhoon to hit Macau, on China's southern coast, in nearly 50 years. .