@@nitrologlynah more like every US success followed by “at what cost?” unimaginable. This is because media and education get their narratives from think tanks.
Let's not forget loads of US sponsored propaganda channels will always report negatively on China. They are all paid handsomely by US state dept under Bill HR 1157 worth $1.6B for generating anti China prop anything goes.
@@nitrologly Imagine if he talked about those natives of Asia attacking other tribes. That would not be Party approved Correct Speech for Allowed Thinking.
@nitrologly He always had double standards although his videos are informative , they are full of the same old prejudices and preconceived ideas regarding other civilizations.
Interesting but difficult to follow. You need clearer maps and more of them. Half of the time I really could not tell what specific areas were under discussion. Thank you.
Very apt comment. Too much blabla too little real info. This is what you get when you crank out these videos in record time. Quantity but not quality. But I guess the way YT is set up fosters quantity over quality.
China: Builds multiple massive canals with supporting infrastructure over thousands of km, no probs. Meanwhile in the UK: can't even build a simple trainline from London to Birmingham (200km) for less than $65 billon...
Yeh but would you prefer poorly (likely) designed/constructed projects that can kill millions and the full-scale non-negotiable seizure of land? I personally think the Chinese can make great products but it is rare and corruption/under-skilled labour is very common. That said, I do think infrastructure in the Western world is overpriced by many times but I do generally trust the completed project is safe and I know they don't simply seize land (you can argue it in court and are very well compensated).
But you can tell your Prime Minister to f*** off without spending years in reeducation. Authoritarian governments are great at getting things done including genocide, repression of dissent, and infrastructure projects.
$62B is insanely cheap for that amount of work. California's massive boondoggle 'bullet train to no-where' will cost several hundred billion (yes, you heard it here first) if it ever gets finished (a big if).
If you want to call a fast rail line from San Francisco to Los Angelos a train to no-where, that`s a bit tough way to begin a conversation. There are over 40 million people in California - thats bigger than a lot of countries.
@@plmokm33 How many bodies buried under British empire legacy?? Or civil wars in North America ? And what do you know about China before you ask this question?
@@ericf1461 Bruh don't tell me you seriously just brought up civil wars lmao, the average Chinese civil war over some idiot declaring himself the brother of Jesus has a death toll in the millions. That's not a joke by the way, look up the Taiping rebellion.
It's not like something built millenia ago has any impact on the current government's expertise. Besides, the current ruling party tried and has partially been succesfull at destroying Chinese culture
@ That coming from western media that dictates what other countries should do? The Chinese have the longest and most continuous historical records of any existing nation. I seriously doubt its government has decided just now to destroy its long culture? On the contrary us westerners are the ones with the hegemonic tendencies.
@@frisianmouve The culture live on so long as the people do. The extremists are either dead or no longer hold power so now traditional culture can flourish again.
Over the years, plenty of people have pointed out the many downsides of the Hoover Dam. It is a marvel of 20th century engineering and it has become iconic, but it's existence has allowed the creation of huge population centers in a desert region. Only time will tell if that's sustainable.
Eastern Washington is covered by a massive canal system that feeds water to what would otherwise be a very arid area. As a result, the farm land there produces the majority of several varieties of our nation's crops.
The US is removing dams because even they can see that fighting nature doesn't work. The problem in China is the mentality that any and all problems can be overcome through engineering. You see it everywhere in China. The 'solution' to the problem is concrete and steel, no matter what. This is what happens when your dictatorship is made up exclusively of engineers. Engineers by themselves are bad enough. But to allow a group of them to dictate to you is completely mad.
This is why English speaking world should just mind their own business. Chinese people know what's best for the Chinese people, white men always lecturing coloured people, and the world functioned fine before the rise of the West and it will continue to function when the West falls. Leave the global south alone and stop poking noses into others' business.
This "at what cost" shit People point are shocked these that China is building mega projects, excel in science, is the manufacturing centre of the world, etc etc. China has been doing all this and much much more for over 3000 years....the worlds oldest irrigation system is still in use in China and it was constructed in 256BC and at the time irrigated over 5000km2. The Grand Canal runs from Shanghai to Beijing and is almost 2000km long....large parts of canal was built from 500BC but only extended to Beijing in 500AD.....The Forbidden City was built over period 10 years and the 100s of buildings span 1km x 1km...most of the materials were either specially made or specially sourced....it was also built to withstand earthquakes and its unique that uses no nails or glue have survive many 7+ earthquakes since its construction in 1410...the list goes on
The poin is, this is a mega project, true, but it is also a gigantically bad idea to arsefeck nature and direct water at those scales. Just look what happened to lake aral, which. incidentally, also was a communist "bright" idea. One would imagine that the political leadership of china had learned something from the past communist shenanigans.
Worse, it is all very recent Chinese history. A much better perspective for this project is in China's millenia-old challenges to control it rivers and to integrate the country through canals. It more than any other single factor is what has shaped China's political history. There's an excellent book on that called "The Water Kingdom".
Engineers tend to not like megaprojects for a reason lol, it's not a coincidence these projects are mostly done by dictatorships where one guy can ignore everyone telling him it's a stupid idea and push it through anyway.
Actual engineers don't tend to like mega projects for a reason lol, that's why they're only typically built by governments where one person in charge can overrule anyone who tells them something is stupid idea.
Westerners just love to go political whenever China or Chinese is mentioned, oh a video about engineering? Let me give you a 10 mins political speech, just like how in every US related video we talk about slavery for half the video for no reason /s
The number is wrong as well.The total actual death during the great famine was around three million. If you apply the same statistic conclusion（people that would have been bornWith the highest birth rate.） to the Great Depression, the death toll in the US was twelve million.
A couple hundred billion recently sent to Ukraine. DOD budget over a trillion a year. The DOD has never passed an audit. Last audit discovered over $21 Trillion missing. How much sent to Israel? The USA had more freedom and services under the King of England. Bring back the King!
Of course you ignore that employees and contractors of the US DoD get paid much more in wages than the masses of Chinese working on their mega-projects.
You should do an episode on Dujiangyan. The probably one of the earliest Chinese mega projects and what allowed Qin China to unified the land and become China. The threat of the flooding and masssive mega projects especially in rerouting water is what made China, Chinese even before the Qin Dynasty
Yeah, it and the Grand Canal are truly a wonder of the world that was way more important historically than the Pyramids or Great Wall. For literally thousands of years the success of China was defined based on the trade routes and irrigation of these water systems, with tens if not more than a *hundred million* lives depending on them.
@@Lesaucissondujour Dujiangyan is indeed worth a visit. You will be amazed at the hydrological technology and ingenious ideas of humans thousands of years ago.
A lot of the ancient Chinese hydraulic projects are still in use today, like the Dujiangyan you mentioned, and the Grand Canal. Ancient Romans built a lot of water projects like aqueducts too, but they're all derelicts now.
@@AlbertowitschFlordecamp He has over 1.31 million subscribers. YT paid for it. What do you have? Do you know how to spell? Have you finished your grade school?
Lol, it's Westerners who are responsible for much of China's building and engineering projects. You might want to look into who designed many of the tallest buildings in China, who not only invented the Mag-lev techology but was instrumental in China building it as well.... And the bit they do themselves they likely stole the technology of, Chinks are notorious for their cyber espionage.
Audio feels off on this, sometimes I can barely hear him at full volume, sometimes it feels like he's yelling through my speakers. Would appreciate some more consistent audio mixing.
@@cheney9614 Simple Chinese manual workers get paid 5% of what an American worker would, considering penalty pay. Chinese rural land would cost less than 1% of American rural land in aquisition cost after payout including legal disputes and lawsuits. Don't get be wrong there are land in China that cost as much as America but these tunnels are going through farmland not LA or Shanghai.
As a Chinese, I think his videos are full of prejudice and subjective thoughts. There are many large-scale water conservancy projects in China that have been in operation for thousands of years, and they are still working today. You need to come and see them for yourself, understand the construction reasons, history, and functions on site, in order to truly understand their significance. Many media videos nowadays carry their own subjective intentions and can ignore their true meaning, misleading the audience. Seeing is believing, it's better to personally visit that place to truly understand it, rather than blindly believing in others' viewpoints
We live in a world where America spends $1 trillion every year on military, but people are questioning the $61 billion cost of a developmental project by China as being too expensive.
Yet the United States can not even repair its own cities and infrastructure, with plummeting living standards and rising homelessness. The audacity of the U.S. and entitlement is as pathetic as it is frustrating.
Not when it comes to bullet trains, the propaganda from the oil industry is so powerful conservatives just laugh at the thought of efficient trains flying across the countryside.
Considering how human lives come a dime a dozen in China, while the UK's insane health and safety regulations are the exact opposite, I'm not that surprised. Not to mention the fact that as a developing country the wages haven't caught up yet, making large scale buildings projects relatively much more affordable as well.
I am not surprised that the Chinese have tried this project. After all, this is the same culture that created transportation canals a thousand years ago, and expanded them so people could travel along them from Nanjing to Beijing.
China has already done similar projects for centuries and I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned (or I might have missed it). The longest canal in the world is The Grand Canal, stretching 1,776 kilometers (1,104 miles) from Beijing to Hangzhou, connecting the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. Early parts of the canal are supposed to be built as early as 468B C and has undergone extensions and restorations over centuries but still very much exists today. What's amazing about China is with a continuous civilization spanning thousands of years, they have a strong connection to their history and what they were able to accomplish in ancient times. They have that strong memory as a civilization of the great things their ancestors built so it is not that difficult for them to imagine building the same.
Not sure where you got those information about the 'famine time', how peasants were treated. My parents were experienced that difficult times, there was a food shortage, but they Never heard anything like you mentioned those mistreatment, and in their living area, nobody had starved to death, they said this had happened before 1949.
The cost of Honolulu's 20 mile long Skyline monorail project has ballooned to $12.5 billion and it's not even close to being finished. It is a Democrat run state though so it's important that everyone gets paid regardless of lack of results.
The difference in how critical this channel is of China while saying nothing similar in videos about Western projects is almost as glaring as Simon's dome.
Nothing out of the ordinary for the Chinese. After all, one of their early leaders, Yu of 4000 years ago, rose up to his prestige by harnessing the Yellow River. One of the South-water-to-north transfer routes, the eastern one, was repurposed from the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, which was built over a thousand years ago for inland north-to-south waterway shipping and for linking up China's mostly east-to-west river systems. Part of it was actually initiated about 2500 years ago for the same idea but on a smaller scale. It's a new millenium, we should think of bigger and better projects to transform nature.
Now I accepted one fact: All the gov will spend money on some mega project, the result can not be perfect. But spending money in local for transferring water is much better than spend money in IRAQ/ESG/NGO.
Having so tall mountains it will be preferred to install water collection from clouds use the water to plant trees near by so the trees will cach water from clouds them rivers will appear.....
In Australia, our government cant even get a pipeline 150km long to transfer treated effluent from Sydney's north and south head treatmant plants at the mouth of the harbour, (along with the gigalitres of storm water that flows out to sea each year,) over the blue mountains and make a perfect plae to grow crops! Contary to popular beliefe, Australia doesn't allways have a water shortage, we just dont collect it and distrubute it.
It's not just me is it... Why has the colour saturation become so unbelievably bad on the videos. A slight exaggeration, but it's not far off Black and White!
Before someone asks, i am watching on an LG OLED through an nVidia Shield. It is ONLY, video's from this creator, that are like this. Editor needs to adjust their settings.
Even watching this with RTX HDR on, on an Asus PG43UQ monitor the videos on this channel are becoming very washed out and contrast is off. Every other channel I usually watch are nice and vibrant. Editor definitely needs to adjust their settings, some more contrast would be a start.
Editor must be using a crappy monitor and not realize how off the black levels are. But all the people using OLED monitors, TVs, and smartphone screens do.
What I like about China is the government really spends a lot on improving citizen welfare , over the years one comes after another well being project was initiated, although some of the projects have failed but at least they keep trying . Kudos to PRC from Malaysia
this isn't report, this is classic US propaganda, that is how you pick out US state sponsored YT channels, there's a lot of them trolls around pretending to be legit channels just like mainstream corporate media.
@@galahadray That is true lecturing, criticizing, pointing fingers, sticking your noses in other countries is a feature of the west, you just can't help it. Understood!
@@juslitor Firstly western rogue regimes don't care. Secondly western govts led by USUKEU have completely being infiltrated by psychos, therefore nothing, no policies from the west will ever make any sense. They are itching for an Armageddon.
Please confirm that China is not under construction, China has completed this thousands of kilometers of water transmission facility more than a decade ago, which is obvious for the ecological improvement of northern China.
I love when I hear stuff is happening that could be on a scale to throw off the earth's rotation, like how that earthquake a couple years ago changed our orbit just enough it added some time to how long the day was
If this is of interest (and you haven't already) you should check out the phenomenon of solar induced crustal slip, short version, it seems like if the sun throws enough energy our way the crust lets go of the mantle just enough to cause a variation in the length of a day 😯🤯
A very difficult path Chinese people walked to the point of becoming the most advanced economy in the world. Even though everything they did you described as WRONG, they overcame poverty and constant both western and Japanese blockades and subversions. In the end, I say, someone did a very good job... On the other side, in the most advanced civilization, I am not allowed to treat myself with an electric vehicle that the whole world can buy on the free market. Go figure!
@@eadweard. More and more we've started seeing in all the downsides of hydro electric dams here in the West; blocking the upstream migration of many types of fish, everything downstream of the dam turning into a desert because all the life giving nutrient-laden silt builds up behind the dam, and plenty of other things. And although quite rare, there's of course the catastrophic effects of a dam breach, like what happened in Libya the past year and seems like it might happen in Iraq any moment.
Canals are in the Chinese DNA. Canal building started 4000 years ago. The Grand Canal was a massive project 1500 years ago. This is just another chapter of China's efforts to reshape the country through water.
There are many ignorant remarks, such as the relocation process has caused hundreds of thousands of people to be displaced. Little do they know that most people are eager for their families to be displaced, because the government's relocation compensation can help many families get out of poverty and get more opportunities to relocate to wealthy areas.
Yea and there are plenty that say their situation is worse and they feel they were not compensated fairly, you got some kind of figures that say that most people are happy about it that didn't come from a government that like to make up their stats?
@@nangongyiyun Considering the "gentle" way the Uighurs are being handled by the chinese government, the more time passes, the fewer people will ever see a live Uighur.
@@juslitor Don't you even watch the RUclips videos of Europeans and Americans who travel to Xinjiang? Or do you continue to lie to yourself and make yourself more excited? The US government hates Muslims all over the world, but only pampers Muslims in China, right?
It hasn't. This is just on of your usual sino-phob channel funded by the US tax payer money. I mean if you believe this dude, then China is using slave labor to pick cotton and everyone is running on social credit or sth.
Deserts are not a good place for population expansion. People that live in the southwest US are finding that out the hard way. If an area is arid, it was meant to be that way.
I'm not sure why this problem keeps coming up but the recorded sound level of all of your programs Simon, is half that of the Advertisement that RUclips drops in. I can barely hear what you're saying with the Volume on Maximum.
I love you simon but why across all your channels is the sound levels so different and then the dynamic levels low too. I think its your different editors and a little microphone. Watching this on a tv with sound sytem its very noticeable. Again love you just wanted to let you know incase noone else has 😊
This whole video and no mention on how it's vastly increased the cost of water for the down-canal residents or the fact that they see water stored in dams as money (because local municipalities have to buy it) thus making sudden dam releases for floods much more common.
@@baomao7243 China seems to be the exception. You only have to go back to the forties and see how desperate the situation was. A land ravaged by a century of foreign invasions and civil wars after 3 thousand years of feudal rule. Mass poverty /starvation, rapidly expanding desertification in the north, almost zero industries etc. They have come a long way since. Pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty. Near impossible to manage a devastated and vast country of 500 million at the beginning of CCP rule, without central planning.
@@kamsunleong6648 Recent events can be argued positively. But multiple master plans in China before the current regime have led to the deaths of tens of millions. Escaping poverty is always positive. But that would be to ignore the history of economic master plans (there).
The alternative to dynamic market price (aka gouging) is rationing. Chinese electricity is famous for having price controls, which results in black outs whenever electric spot price gets too high. People prefer rationing when they are flat broke but I personally would rather pay more for water than to run out of water.
62 billion dollars sounds like a lot until you realise that Britain was unable to finish a single HS2 line to unite London and Manchester for less than 90 billion dollars. Cities that are 4hrs drive from one another.
I would suggest China study some of the smaller projects. The Salton Sea fiasco in California. Also many years ago in California a concrete canal was put in to replace a winding river. Result concentrations of various chemicals that caused birth defects in birds. Agriculture was blamed, until someone did a study and found that hill sides had various NATURAL concentrations of these chemicals. The old winding river allowed the chemicals to drop to the bottom and become diluted. The canal moved the water fast and the concrete did not absorb any of the heavy metals. In other words they went from a living ecology to a dead and sterile concrete ecology for "progress".
Salton Sea should be clean up rather to be left covered by sea water. With the sea drying up, there are no excuse to clean it up now rather than sending billions oversea wars.
Please note that The Black Book of Communism, published in 1997, claims Communist regimes, especially under Mao Zedong, caused over 100 million deaths. However, the book’s editor, Stéphane Courtois, admitted he aimed to emphasize Communist atrocities over Western actions, therefore the figures were inflated and selectively framed. Courtois combined direct killings with deaths from famine, policy failures, and even included projected impacts on future generations, which critics say misrepresents complex events like the Great Leap Forward, where most deaths resulted from mismanagement rather than intent to kill. This framing has drawn criticism for portraying Communist regimes harshly without similar scrutiny of Western actions.
@ While it’s true that death is tragic no matter the cause, it’s also crucial to recognize how the figures surrounding Mao’s era are often used in a way that serves a specific narrative. Many in the West rely on inflated numbers, like those from the Black Book of Communism, to bolster a narrative of Western superiority. They often ignore the complex context behind those figures, focusing more on the shock value than the nuanced reality. This selective framing only perpetuates a one-sided story and dismisses the progress and development that China has made in recent years.
Youre practically brain dead, america does not use propaganda, we just state the facts. You should probably learn the definition of the words you are going to try to use.
Russia used to have one of the biggest lakes in the world called the Aral Sea…. Yeah it was soo big they called it an ocean. They built a bunch of canals for agriculture, I think they wanted to grow cotton. Well the Aral Sea is COMPLETELY GONE now, dried up, you can actually see giant ships in the middle of what looks like a dessert, it’s really crazy. I guess China thinks they can do it right 🤷♂️
@@juslitor China killed as much as 100 million of their own people in just a couple of decades time, while the Soviets "merely" killed up to 65 million, so the Chinese are ahead by a third.
Killing the birds because they thought they were eating grain, caused bug infestations..killing or eating crops......kinda left that part out. But the water wasn't for agriculture and manufacturing...but for people. But it's too pricey. And polluted.
you chat, shit, chinese people are practical clever people, they try out things to see if works or not. killing the birds had little effected afterward, they used chemicals like the west to kill insects, so it was working but they discovered it wasn't the birds and insects because of less fertilizers or the soils were poor. your old western bs.
I had an idea for a pipeline in the US, it would distribute water from flooded areas to drought areas. Guess I gotta watch the video to see the reason for this river, I bet it's what I was thinking.
Simon, IMNSHO, this is one of your best videos. It has a conversational, but sincerely erudite feel to it. Your narration is natural, and well-paced, indicative of a subject you seem to be sincerely empassioned about. Your production team puts out a large volume of work, across quite a few discreet channels. If you could transfer what you did here to elsewhere, I've no doubt your viewership would expand appreciatively.
Surely an artificial river is more correctly called a canal.
With China's record with messing with Mother Nature, it might be called another mass causality event when it crumbles.
Shirley can call her canal an artificial river if she wants.
@@EarlFisher-k6w😂
But artificial river is a better click baitey title
Not an Aqueduct then?
Maybe they just don't want to give any credit to the Romans.
62 billion would only cover the planning phase in America.
Kickbacks to congress you mean.
let's see how long it lasts, probably gonna be something like 3 gorges dam, which is already slowly sliding forwards and will eventually collapse
Yea, the funding for first 5 years and set up the stage for milking....
"In whataboutism we trust"
@@irvingchies1626 source?
But at what cost? Very BBC 😂
Imagine every US video was prefaced with genocide of Natives and slavery or UK with their bloody colonial past... Guy is laying it on thick...😅
@@nitrologlynah more like every US success followed by “at what cost?” unimaginable. This is because media and education get their narratives from think tanks.
Let's not forget loads of US sponsored propaganda channels will always report negatively on China.
They are all paid handsomely by US state dept under Bill HR 1157 worth $1.6B for generating anti China prop anything goes.
@@nitrologly Imagine if he talked about those natives of Asia attacking other tribes. That would not be Party approved Correct Speech for Allowed Thinking.
@nitrologly He always had double standards although his videos are informative , they are full of the same old prejudices and preconceived ideas regarding other civilizations.
Interesting but difficult to follow. You need clearer maps and more of them. Half of the time I really could not tell what specific areas were under discussion. Thank you.
I was thinking the same thing.
Agreed
Very apt comment. Too much blabla too little real info. This is what you get when you crank out these videos in record time. Quantity but not quality. But I guess the way YT is set up fosters quantity over quality.
Totally agree to much rambling BS Simon needs to do better.
Think this video was written and put together by AI
China: Builds multiple massive canals with supporting infrastructure over thousands of km, no probs. Meanwhile in the UK: can't even build a simple trainline from London to Birmingham (200km) for less than $65 billon...
Yeh but would you prefer poorly (likely) designed/constructed projects that can kill millions and the full-scale non-negotiable seizure of land?
I personally think the Chinese can make great products but it is rare and corruption/under-skilled labour is very common.
That said, I do think infrastructure in the Western world is overpriced by many times but I do generally trust the completed project is safe and I know they don't simply seize land (you can argue it in court and are very well compensated).
High energy cost will definitely have an significant impact on everything in Western Europe. The deindustrialization is probably happening there.
But you can tell your Prime Minister to f*** off without spending years in reeducation. Authoritarian governments are great at getting things done including genocide, repression of dissent, and infrastructure projects.
The Tories had been buying up land so they could compulsorily purchase it at inflated prices, we are paying for the corruption.
@@retsaMinnavoiG Were you alive in 1930?
$62B is insanely cheap for that amount of work. California's massive boondoggle 'bullet train to no-where' will cost several hundred billion (yes, you heard it here first) if it ever gets finished (a big if).
It's so cheap because it will collapse in less than 10 years
@@emjay6828 当初也有人这样说三峡。
Its so expensive and takes so long, because of corruption.
If you want to call a fast rail line from San Francisco to Los Angelos a train to no-where, that`s a bit tough way to begin a conversation. There are over 40 million people in California - thats bigger than a lot of countries.
懒得喷你😂@@emjay6828
An artificial river?😂 Aren't they called canals?
I think they’re less going for canal and more for the la river I bet it will work out just as well
Yes, and it is reffered to as a canal throughout the video. Here is your sign. Hold it up high please.
Qanat.
Propaganda propaganda
@@ALFforPresidentis that a Bill Engvall reference in the wild? 😂🔥🤌
western commentators in 3rd century BCE: " China is building an Insane Artificial Wall, but at what cost?"
Considering how many worker's bodies are buried under the base I'd say that's not a bad question to ask.
Do not know the price yet….
But without pay in something first , what do you expect to come out?
Considering how often China was conquered by northern barbarians...
@@plmokm33
How many bodies buried under British empire legacy?? Or civil wars in North America ?
And what do you know about China before you ask this question?
@@ericf1461 Bruh don't tell me you seriously just brought up civil wars lmao, the average Chinese civil war over some idiot declaring himself the brother of Jesus has a death toll in the millions. That's not a joke by the way, look up the Taiping rebellion.
It’s not like China has any experience in water control… cough cough Dujiangyan water resource management system that was built 2000 years ago!! 🙄
It's not like something built millenia ago has any impact on the current government's expertise. Besides, the current ruling party tried and has partially been succesfull at destroying Chinese culture
@ That coming from western media that dictates what other countries should do? The Chinese have the longest and most continuous historical records of any existing nation. I seriously doubt its government has decided just now to destroy its long culture? On the contrary us westerners are the ones with the hegemonic tendencies.
@@frisianmouve 笑死了，狗屁都不懂在这里臆想。
It's not like China has recently destroyed the ecosystem of its own land in order to build, say, dams or other megaprojects, no.
@@frisianmouve The culture live on so long as the people do. The extremists are either dead or no longer hold power so now traditional culture can flourish again.
So about Hoover Dam? Etc. Or is it only playing with nature when China does it?
Or, all those explosions in all these western made wars.
It's playing with fire, regardless of who does it.
Over the years, plenty of people have pointed out the many downsides of the Hoover Dam. It is a marvel of 20th century engineering and it has become iconic, but it's existence has allowed the creation of huge population centers in a desert region. Only time will tell if that's sustainable.
Eastern Washington is covered by a massive canal system that feeds water to what would otherwise be a very arid area. As a result, the farm land there produces the majority of several varieties of our nation's crops.
The US is removing dams because even they can see that fighting nature doesn't work. The problem in China is the mentality that any and all problems can be overcome through engineering. You see it everywhere in China. The 'solution' to the problem is concrete and steel, no matter what. This is what happens when your dictatorship is made up exclusively of engineers. Engineers by themselves are bad enough. But to allow a group of them to dictate to you is completely mad.
In Europe the refurbishing of one museum started in 2013 will cost 1,5 Billion and allegedly will open in 2037!No joke!
This is why English speaking world should just mind their own business. Chinese people know what's best for the Chinese people, white men always lecturing coloured people, and the world functioned fine before the rise of the West and it will continue to function when the West falls. Leave the global south alone and stop poking noses into others' business.
@@dipling.pitzler7650 Details?
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This "at what cost" shit
People point are shocked these that China is building mega projects, excel in science, is the manufacturing centre of the world, etc etc.
China has been doing all this and much much more for over 3000 years....the worlds oldest irrigation system is still in use in China and it was constructed in 256BC and at the time irrigated over 5000km2. The Grand Canal runs from Shanghai to Beijing and is almost 2000km long....large parts of canal was built from 500BC but only extended to Beijing in 500AD.....The Forbidden City was built over period 10 years and the 100s of buildings span 1km x 1km...most of the materials were either specially made or specially sourced....it was also built to withstand earthquakes and its unique that uses no nails or glue have survive many 7+ earthquakes since its construction in 1410...the list goes on
Yeah we get it, China is the center of the world and everyone revolves around it
@@dinmavric5504 That was pretty much the truth for a thousands years, no?
Lol😂
No😮 @@nahoj.2569
The poin is, this is a mega project, true, but it is also a gigantically bad idea to arsefeck nature and direct water at those scales. Just look what happened to lake aral, which. incidentally, also was a communist "bright" idea. One would imagine that the political leadership of china had learned something from the past communist shenanigans.
Actual Video starts at @08:00 for the people who dont need a china history lesson.
Worse, it is all very recent Chinese history. A much better perspective for this project is in China's millenia-old challenges to control it rivers and to integrate the country through canals. It more than any other single factor is what has shaped China's political history. There's an excellent book on that called "The Water Kingdom".
16 billion funding, so must insert some crimes of PRC lol
Thank you
Thanks, I was getting tired of rolling my eyes.
Thank you very much
So many shades to throw for an engineering channel.
Engineers tend to not like megaprojects for a reason lol, it's not a coincidence these projects are mostly done by dictatorships where one guy can ignore everyone telling him it's a stupid idea and push it through anyway.
Criticism
Actual engineers don't tend to like mega projects for a reason lol, that's why they're only typically built by governments where one person in charge can overrule anyone who tells them something is stupid idea.
His accent is doing a lot of the heavy lifting from a xenophobia standpoint 😂
@@plmokm33 So that's why the west is so broken nowadays.
Westerners just love to go political whenever China or Chinese is mentioned, oh a video about engineering? Let me give you a 10 mins political speech, just like how in every US related video we talk about slavery for half the video for no reason /s
I remember a few months ago the US Congress approved 1.6 billion to do such a thing
The number is wrong as well.The total actual death during the great famine was around three million. If you apply the same statistic conclusion（people that would have been bornWith the highest birth rate.） to the Great Depression, the death toll in the US was twelve million.
@@sed9406 Yes, I myself often counter that with the Great Depression.
Here in Brazil we have the Transposition of the Rio Sao Francisco, it also was expensive, but it is working fine
China is working on Trades & Infrastructure projects .
The US is working on Wars , Gang Fights & Bad-mouthing China .
*SO SIMON: TELL US ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA CENTRAL AND STATE WATER PROJECTS..........*
$62 billion. Or, in other words, less than a tenth of the Pentagon's annual budget. Pretty sweet deal.
A couple hundred billion recently sent to Ukraine. DOD budget over a trillion a year. The DOD has never passed an audit. Last audit discovered over $21 Trillion missing.
How much sent to Israel?
The USA had more freedom and services under the King of England. Bring back the King!
@@sugarpuddin thats not enough. triple the defense budget and create the department of offense with a budget of $1.5T
That’s why they’ll dominate why’ll the says collapses at the hands of Peter Thiel backed Musk and Trump. 😪💀
Of course you ignore that employees and contractors of the US DoD get paid much more in wages than the masses of Chinese working on their mega-projects.
@@TheDanEdwards Meanwhile US infrastructure is old and crumbling.
Just skip to 8:15
Thanks bro 谢谢🎉
As J Clarkson stated in a top gear episode, there ain’t no mountain high enough no river wide enough to stop Chinese engineering
You should do an episode on Dujiangyan. The probably one of the earliest Chinese mega projects and what allowed Qin China to unified the land and become China. The threat of the flooding and masssive mega projects especially in rerouting water is what made China, Chinese even before the Qin Dynasty
Yeah, it and the Grand Canal are truly a wonder of the world that was way more important historically than the Pyramids or Great Wall. For literally thousands of years the success of China was defined based on the trade routes and irrigation of these water systems, with tens if not more than a *hundred million* lives depending on them.
@@Lesaucissondujour Dujiangyan is indeed worth a visit. You will be amazed at the hydrological technology and ingenious ideas of humans thousands of years ago.
A lot of the ancient Chinese hydraulic projects are still in use today, like the Dujiangyan you mentioned, and the Grand Canal. Ancient Romans built a lot of water projects like aqueducts too, but they're all derelicts now.
Your username is sick as hell, love it.
@yudogcome5901 I will likely never visit China, as people aren't free to have thoughts & opinions there.
3:22 "many *agriculturalists* lost everything." I couldn't help but pause and take note of such an interesting avoidance of the word "farmer".
consider it costs 1/4 of what US spent for Ukraine in 2 years. It is quite a bargain.
I appreciate the speaker making his bias clear in the first 5 seconds of the video.
You can't escape your own bias and had a rear orifice pain....dude...beat it. China beats "your kind" flat!
not just bias. My question was: who paid for this?
@@AlbertowitschFlordecamp damn, chinese moomin trolls this time of year, shame on you.
@@AlbertowitschFlordecamp
He has over 1.31 million subscribers.
YT paid for it.
What do you have?
Do you know how to spell?
Have you finished your grade school?
Found the Sino bot.
What you might not know is that the Chinese civilisation has been creating canals and making artificial rivers since ancient history.
Westerners loved the time stand-still before the '80s, and China would stay down forever. Well, your wishes are not granted.
The West is what allowed China to grow lol
Lol, it's Westerners who are responsible for much of China's building and engineering projects. You might want to look into who designed many of the tallest buildings in China, who not only invented the Mag-lev techology but was instrumental in China building it as well.... And the bit they do themselves they likely stole the technology of, Chinks are notorious for their cyber espionage.
Audio feels off on this, sometimes I can barely hear him at full volume, sometimes it feels like he's yelling through my speakers. Would appreciate some more consistent audio mixing.
Heaarrrrrdddd that buddy!
"Wow, that commercial was sure loud... What's my volume at? Christ... 97%? WHY!?"
-Me......... and you, probably
I'm hearing you.
The music interludes are also a lot louder smh
WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING ANYMORE! (EARBUDS)
I'm sure plenty of people are trying to figure out how to get water from Canada to California
Much cheaper to desalinate in California
I'm Chinese. Shocked me...!😮How？
@@cheney9614 Simple Chinese manual workers get paid 5% of what an American worker would, considering penalty pay.
Chinese rural land would cost less than 1% of American rural land in aquisition cost after payout including legal disputes and lawsuits.
Don't get be wrong there are land in China that cost as much as America but these tunnels are going through farmland not LA or Shanghai.
@@robertbslee4209😂😂😂Is the California Railroad finished?
Why does every video about something good about China have to start with anti-communism?
It's like those videos about Nazi planes and stuff. Why do they always have to talk about Nazi atrocities first?
That's the protocol.
@@rog4464 from CIA.
@@eadweard.白痴纳粹等于共产党？那以色列为什么和纳粹建交？
40M corpses can do that
Right when I was about to start folding my laundry, I’m looking for something to watch, and this just got uploaded.
Thanks guys.
As a Chinese, I think his videos are full of prejudice and subjective thoughts. There are many large-scale water conservancy projects in China that have been in operation for thousands of years, and they are still working today. You need to come and see them for yourself, understand the construction reasons, history, and functions on site, in order to truly understand their significance. Many media videos nowadays carry their own subjective intentions and can ignore their true meaning, misleading the audience. Seeing is believing, it's better to personally visit that place to truly understand it, rather than blindly believing in others' viewpoints
Imagine watching this and living in Flint Michigan....
yhhhaha
China's water is much worse than that.
Flints water is cleaner than any city in China
We live in a world where America spends $1 trillion every year on military, but people are questioning the $61 billion cost of a developmental project by China as being too expensive.
62 billion is nothing compared to what the US spent on losing the Ukraine War
Losing!? Silly bot.
@@DesertFernwehBy what metric do you conclude otherwise? Genuine question.
@@DesertFernweh Yep, losing. I trust D. Trump.
whenever China builds something the west loses their mind🤣🤣
they will freak out even if China just farts!!!
China is working on Trades & Infrastructure projects .
The US is working on Wars , Gang Fights & Bad-mouthing China .
Yet the United States can not even repair its own cities and infrastructure, with plummeting living standards and rising homelessness. The audacity of the U.S. and entitlement is as pathetic as it is frustrating.
Not when it comes to bullet trains, the propaganda from the oil industry is so powerful conservatives just laugh at the thought of efficient trains flying across the countryside.
Taiwan has real engineering, ccp low quality intellectual theft 99.9 percent of everything that is there
The UK wasn't able to build 140 miles of high-speed rail track for the entire price of the Three Gorges Dam.
Considering how human lives come a dime a dozen in China, while the UK's insane health and safety regulations are the exact opposite, I'm not that surprised. Not to mention the fact that as a developing country the wages haven't caught up yet, making large scale buildings projects relatively much more affordable as well.
Its a good job people like you clearly know more about Chinese geography than the 1.4 Billion Chinese.
I am not surprised that the Chinese have tried this project. After all, this is the same culture that created transportation canals a thousand years ago, and expanded them so people could travel along them from Nanjing to Beijing.
If you think that there is ANY of the expertise and glory left of old China in modern China, then you are more stupid than one can imagine 🤣
China has already done similar projects for centuries and I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned (or I might have missed it). The longest canal in the world is The Grand Canal, stretching 1,776 kilometers (1,104 miles) from Beijing to Hangzhou, connecting the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. Early parts of the canal are supposed to be built as early as 468B C and has undergone extensions and restorations over centuries but still very much exists today. What's amazing about China is with a continuous civilization spanning thousands of years, they have a strong connection to their history and what they were able to accomplish in ancient times. They have that strong memory as a civilization of the great things their ancestors built so it is not that difficult for them to imagine building the same.
Not sure where you got those information about the 'famine time', how peasants were treated. My parents were experienced that difficult times, there was a food shortage, but they Never heard anything like you mentioned those mistreatment, and in their living area, nobody had starved to death, they said this had happened before 1949.
These people hate Chinese people so much they invent and fantasize about gruesome mass death events for their entertainment
$62 billion still half the cost on HS2 and HS2 will now not be fully completed
Too many stuffed brown envelopes
@@DewtbArenatsiz There's a lot of grease needed for any projects in US, UK.
$62 billion about one-third of what the US Congress has budgeted for the Ukraine-Russia war...
The cost of Honolulu's 20 mile long Skyline monorail project has ballooned to $12.5 billion and it's not even close to being finished. It is a Democrat run state though so it's important that everyone gets paid regardless of lack of results.
The difference in how critical this channel is of China while saying nothing similar in videos about Western projects is almost as glaring as Simon's dome.
What Western projects?.
Nothing out of the ordinary for the Chinese. After all, one of their early leaders, Yu of 4000 years ago, rose up to his prestige by harnessing the Yellow River. One of the South-water-to-north transfer routes, the eastern one, was repurposed from the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, which was built over a thousand years ago for inland north-to-south waterway shipping and for linking up China's mostly east-to-west river systems. Part of it was actually initiated about 2500 years ago for the same idea but on a smaller scale.
It's a new millenium, we should think of bigger and better projects to transform nature.
Now I accepted one fact: All the gov will spend money on some mega project, the result can not be perfect. But spending money in local for transferring water is much better than spend money in IRAQ/ESG/NGO.
Well, compare that 63 billion from what Murica spend in WAR.
noticed that whenever this dude covers anything involving china, he comes across as someone that he is taking money from some agency to rubbish china.
you little bot monkeys are getting tedious.
$62 billion is nothing. California wants to spend 2x that for a slow speed train. SMH
Yes, countries are always promise not to restrict water to their downstream neighbours. Until a drought starts.
The future water wars are gonna be something
Too many mouths drinking water.
To much waste of water
Like the Colorado River in USA 🇺🇸 that dries up just before it reaches Mexico 🇲🇽.
@@robertdiehl1281 human drinking is an extremly tiny ammount of freshwater consumption in the world...
It's good to know just how much one can nit pick. Amazing
Having so tall mountains it will be preferred to install water collection from clouds use the water to plant trees near by so the trees will cach water from clouds them rivers will appear.....
In Australia, our government cant even get a pipeline 150km long to transfer treated effluent from Sydney's north and south head treatmant plants at the mouth of the harbour, (along with the gigalitres of storm water that flows out to sea each year,) over the blue mountains and make a perfect plae to grow crops! Contary to popular beliefe, Australia doesn't allways have a water shortage, we just dont collect it and distrubute it.
It's not just me is it... Why has the colour saturation become so unbelievably bad on the videos. A slight exaggeration, but it's not far off Black and White!
Before someone asks, i am watching on an LG OLED through an nVidia Shield. It is ONLY, video's from this creator, that are like this. Editor needs to adjust their settings.
Even watching this with RTX HDR on, on an Asus PG43UQ monitor the videos on this channel are becoming very washed out and contrast is off. Every other channel I usually watch are nice and vibrant. Editor definitely needs to adjust their settings, some more contrast would be a start.
Watching this on a something screen on a something phone. And i agree that the color has gotten poor.
The saturation on Simon's new camera has to be adjusted. 😂
Editor must be using a crappy monitor and not realize how off the black levels are. But all the people using OLED monitors, TVs, and smartphone screens do.
Someone in the comments said it's just a canal
It's not a megaproject if 'The B1M' doesn't cover it lol
What I like about China is the government really spends a lot on improving citizen welfare , over the years one comes after another well being project was initiated, although some of the projects have failed but at least they keep trying . Kudos to PRC from Malaysia
why bother showing this if all you do is criticize its past.
this isn't report, this is classic US propaganda, that is how you pick out US state sponsored YT channels, there's a lot of them trolls around pretending to be legit channels just like mainstream corporate media.
because the point is to critisize surely
@@galahadray That is true lecturing, criticizing, pointing fingers, sticking your noses in other countries is a feature of the west, you just can't help it. Understood!
One must remember the past, as to not repeat its mistakes in the future.
@@juslitor Firstly western rogue regimes don't care. Secondly western govts led by USUKEU have completely being infiltrated by psychos, therefore nothing, no policies from the west will ever make any sense. They are itching for an Armageddon.
Please confirm that China is not under construction, China has completed this thousands of kilometers of water transmission facility more than a decade ago, which is obvious for the ecological improvement of northern China.
basically a modern aquaduct.
Thanks for another great video!
There is only one country, and it's called earth. We live there. Together.
I love when I hear stuff is happening that could be on a scale to throw off the earth's rotation, like how that earthquake a couple years ago changed our orbit just enough it added some time to how long the day was
We are talking about micro of micro secondes here. Like thousands of seconds
@@fuzzyhair321 today and that's an imbalance, ever had a speed wobble when driving and know the outcome?
@@joshb6470 You okay?
@@joshb6470 dude we are talking about different scales here. At most it's so small effect that's it's barely noticeable
If this is of interest (and you haven't already) you should check out the phenomenon of solar induced crustal slip, short version, it seems like if the sun throws enough energy our way the crust lets go of the mantle just enough to cause a variation in the length of a day 😯🤯
A very difficult path Chinese people walked to the point of becoming the most advanced economy in the world. Even though everything they did you described as WRONG, they overcame poverty and constant both western and Japanese blockades and subversions. In the end, I say, someone did a very good job... On the other side, in the most advanced civilization, I am not allowed to treat myself with an electric vehicle that the whole world can buy on the free market. Go figure!
That sounds like something Soviet Union would have attempted. Because they did.
China has been doing this for thousands of years... Hyperscale
While most people pray, Chinese take it into their hands try to make a difference.
It’s not about failure, it’s about learn something, do better.
Sometimes, its better to reflect on ones actions before taking action.
Because diverting major rivers NEVER goes disastrously wrong. 😑
Does it go wrong often?
@@eadweard. More and more we've started seeing in all the downsides of hydro electric dams here in the West; blocking the upstream migration of many types of fish, everything downstream of the dam turning into a desert because all the life giving nutrient-laden silt builds up behind the dam, and plenty of other things. And although quite rare, there's of course the catastrophic effects of a dam breach, like what happened in Libya the past year and seems like it might happen in Iraq any moment.
Very nice uploads. Pls keep posting the alikes. Sure billions around the globe will be interested in watching them.
Canals are in the Chinese DNA. Canal building started 4000 years ago. The Grand Canal was a massive project 1500 years ago. This is just another chapter of China's efforts to reshape the country through water.
For all the good it did them . . . . or didn't do ?
Because all the billions of gallons of water already diverted is not fit for human consumption?
I gotta thank the editing. The new font for the chapters look great.
There are many ignorant remarks, such as the relocation process has caused hundreds of thousands of people to be displaced. Little do they know that most people are eager for their families to be displaced, because the government's relocation compensation can help many families get out of poverty and get more opportunities to relocate to wealthy areas.
Yea and there are plenty that say their situation is worse and they feel they were not compensated fairly, you got some kind of figures that say that most people are happy about it that didn't come from a government that like to make up their stats?
And I bet you think that the Uyghurs also wanted to be relocated.
@juslitor And I bet you have never been to Xinjiang, nor have you seen a living Uighur
@@nangongyiyun Considering the "gentle" way the Uighurs are being handled by the chinese government, the more time passes, the fewer people will ever see a live Uighur.
@@juslitor Don't you even watch the RUclips videos of Europeans and Americans who travel to Xinjiang? Or do you continue to lie to yourself and make yourself more excited? The US government hates Muslims all over the world, but only pampers Muslims in China, right?
Canals are primarily used for shipping, and this is used for agricultural and is more rightly called an aqueduct, not a canal.
I remember following this project years ago. Shame its gone sideways as the Original Concept was very interesting.
It hasn't. This is just on of your usual sino-phob channel funded by the US tax payer money. I mean if you believe this dude, then China is using slave labor to pick cotton and everyone is running on social credit or sth.
Deserts are not a good place for population expansion. People that live in the southwest US are finding that out the hard way. If an area is arid, it was meant to be that way.
Imagine a country INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE?
insane.
seems more like water and water rights confiscation - and what cost to nature?
@@aaroncapricorn5867 The supposed cost is that I get to drink clean water, while you, suffering my contempt, run off and cry to Greta Thunberg.
How do you clean the sediment out after it builds up...
They have the way with machines
Slurry vacuums.
Desander at inlet that removes most of the sediment, consistent flow velocity along canal due to constant slope
I'm not sure why this problem keeps coming up but the recorded sound level of all of your programs Simon, is half that of the Advertisement that RUclips drops in. I can barely hear what you're saying with the Volume on Maximum.
The "Hu line" was first , the "wat line" was second and "I don't know " was third.
LOL
You can just make the holes in the drainage system small and easy to plug to adjust drainage to the needs of each locality.
O yes the bald guy with the fancy accent... I'm here for it! 😊
Yeah, I tried to make it through to the end….. but the more I listened the more I didn’t care
Fake accent you mean. Very contrived
I love you simon but why across all your channels is the sound levels so different and then the dynamic levels low too. I think its your different editors and a little microphone. Watching this on a tv with sound sytem its very noticeable. Again love you just wanted to let you know incase noone else has 😊
This whole video and no mention on how it's vastly increased the cost of water for the down-canal residents or the fact that they see water stored in dams as money (because local municipalities have to buy it) thus making sudden dam releases for floods much more common.
Master planning of an economy hasn’t played out well historically.
@@baomao7243
China seems to be the exception. You only have to go back to the forties and see how desperate the situation was. A land ravaged by a century of foreign invasions and civil wars after 3 thousand years of feudal rule. Mass poverty /starvation, rapidly expanding desertification in the north, almost zero industries etc. They have come a long way since. Pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty. Near impossible to manage a devastated and vast country of 500 million at the beginning of CCP rule, without central planning.
@@kamsunleong6648 Recent events can be argued positively. But multiple master plans in China before the current regime have led to the deaths of tens of millions. Escaping poverty is always positive. But that would be to ignore the history of economic master plans (there).
@@kamsunleong6648yeah what's a million killed between friends
The alternative to dynamic market price (aka gouging) is rationing. Chinese electricity is famous for having price controls, which results in black outs whenever electric spot price gets too high. People prefer rationing when they are flat broke but I personally would rather pay more for water than to run out of water.
62 billion dollars sounds like a lot until you realise that Britain was unable to finish a single HS2 line to unite London and Manchester for less than 90 billion dollars. Cities that are 4hrs drive from one another.
I would suggest China study some of the smaller projects. The Salton Sea fiasco in California. Also many years ago in California a concrete canal was put in to replace a winding river. Result concentrations of various chemicals that caused birth defects in birds. Agriculture was blamed, until someone did a study and found that hill sides had various NATURAL concentrations of these chemicals. The old winding river allowed the chemicals to drop to the bottom and become diluted. The canal moved the water fast and the concrete did not absorb any of the heavy metals. In other words they went from a living ecology to a dead and sterile concrete ecology for "progress".
You can't excuse agriculture by pointing out that some of the chemicals are derived from the mountains.
Salton Sea should be clean up rather to be left covered by sea water. With the sea drying up, there are no excuse to clean it up now rather than sending billions oversea wars.
Eh its not like they are gonna care about the environment
They probably can't access it due to national security reasons claimed by US gov't.
@@TheDanEdwards He's not saying there are no problems with agricultural pollution, he's saying that in this case the cause was entirely different.
Dude. Your new look is great
Please note that The Black Book of Communism, published in 1997, claims Communist regimes, especially under Mao Zedong, caused over 100 million deaths. However, the book’s editor, Stéphane Courtois, admitted he aimed to emphasize Communist atrocities over Western actions, therefore the figures were inflated and selectively framed. Courtois combined direct killings with deaths from famine, policy failures, and even included projected impacts on future generations, which critics say misrepresents complex events like the Great Leap Forward, where most deaths resulted from mismanagement rather than intent to kill. This framing has drawn criticism for portraying Communist regimes harshly without similar scrutiny of Western actions.
Mismanagement from Communism.
I doubt the cause of death matters to those concerned, Dead is still Dead.
@ While it’s true that death is tragic no matter the cause, it’s also crucial to recognize how the figures surrounding Mao’s era are often used in a way that serves a specific narrative. Many in the West rely on inflated numbers, like those from the Black Book of Communism, to bolster a narrative of Western superiority. They often ignore the complex context behind those figures, focusing more on the shock value than the nuanced reality. This selective framing only perpetuates a one-sided story and dismisses the progress and development that China has made in recent years.
Good information, but definitely interesting to have a British accent explaining a Chinese, and then Indian, project.
I always love the propaganda battles between the Yankees and Tankies in every single China video.
So do I
You simply have to mention the 1988 Tianenmen Square massacre and it gets blocked in China anyway.
Youre practically brain dead, america does not use propaganda, we just state the facts. You should probably learn the definition of the words you are going to try to use.
Ah yes, the tianamen square tea party and friendly yet frank exchange of views
@@BongoBaggins You're a year off
a war of a river is actually quite realistic actual.
how ever both parties have extremely poor track records regarding rivers
Every time I look at you, I see myself from a parallel universe. Keep up the fascinating content!
Mf what😂😂😂
Who would have thought Lindybeige's fashion would catch on!
Russia used to have one of the biggest lakes in the world called the Aral Sea…. Yeah it was soo big they called it an ocean. They built a bunch of canals for agriculture, I think they wanted to grow cotton. Well the Aral Sea is COMPLETELY GONE now, dried up, you can actually see giant ships in the middle of what looks like a dessert, it’s really crazy. I guess China thinks they can do it right 🤷♂️
Of course they can, they follow Maoism, not Leninism like the pesky russians did.
@@juslitor China killed as much as 100 million of their own people in just a couple of decades time, while the Soviets "merely" killed up to 65 million, so the Chinese are ahead by a third.
Cool. Thanks for trimming the beard ✊️
Killing the birds because they thought they were eating grain, caused bug infestations..killing or eating crops......kinda left that part out.
But the water wasn't for agriculture and manufacturing...but for people. But it's too pricey. And polluted.
@@duyataksis5210 commies aren't people.
@@duyataksis5210 Hes referring to the extermiantion of sparrows. And yes that caused a famine in china around 1959.
you chat, shit, chinese people are practical clever people, they try out things to see if works or not. killing the birds had little effected afterward, they used chemicals like the west to kill insects, so it was working but they discovered it wasn't the birds and insects because of less fertilizers or the soils were poor. your old western bs.
@@duyataksis5210 I’d say your a Chinese bot but a Chinese bot would probably make their point better than you did
@duyataksis5210 how is this a 'highlighted' comment. Check your history.....dummy
I had an idea for a pipeline in the US, it would distribute water from flooded areas to drought areas. Guess I gotta watch the video to see the reason for this river, I bet it's what I was thinking.
62 billion dollars is nothing compared to Australian taxpayers costs for AUKUS at 180 billion dollars scam 😒
Australia is vassal of US. What do you expect?
You so wanted to end that with Red Flag By Name, Red Flag By Nature drop didn't ya!
1:49 industrial advance at all costs
5:20 a cold walk with nature
8:13 the south-north water transfer project
10:50 problems
15:06 a red flag project
Why you always lying?
What a great project. This project will cause a lot of discomfort to some people...
Get ready for a lot of noise around it
No mountain, no desert, no lake, no force in the universe can stop human engineers. Except one. Money.
人没有独立意志，人的意志就是自然的意志，只不过这个自然意志在当今社会中是以人格化体现的。
A drought? A moon sized meteor? The sun swollowing the earth? The sea flooding all land?
In my country we take 10 years to complete a sanitary 50 feet ditch
Simon, IMNSHO, this is one of your best videos. It has a conversational, but sincerely erudite feel to it. Your narration is natural, and well-paced, indicative of a subject you seem to be sincerely empassioned about. Your production team puts out a large volume of work, across quite a few discreet channels. If you could transfer what you did here to elsewhere, I've no doubt your viewership would expand appreciatively.
Ha says youtuber number one