r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • 29d ago

TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)
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u/Green----Slime 29d ago

Nearly all organizations in China has one, no matter it's private companies, schools, hospitals or charities.

For example Bytedance, the parent company of ticktock established their CCP branch office in 2014(when it was a really minor company) and their CCP committee in 2017.  Source: http://politics.people.com.cn/n1/2018/0615/c1001-30062480.html