The Corruption Behind China's Three Gorges Dam Exposed (1999)
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2018
- Dam of Corruption (1999): Corruption and shoddy construction threaten the whole future of the Three Gorges Dam project on China’s Yangste River.
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Wedged into the rocks above a secluded ravine hangs the rubble of a collapsed bridge. Foreign journalists are not supposed to see this, the evidence of disastrous corruption surrounding the dam’s hundreds of smaller infrastructure projects. Ironically Beijing is now allowing open criticism of the building fiascos to shame contractors into operating honourably. Given access for the first time, a Chinese TV reporter laughs in amazement as he plunges a stick into a supposedly impenetrable levee bank. A building contractor appointed to repair the levee subcontracted the job, pocketing a proportion of the reconstruction funds. For the people displaced by the dam, resettlement compensation is also disappearing. Fengdu City will be drowned in four years. High above the waterline the new city rises brick by brick. But there are no cheap houses being built, it’s all luxury offices & homes. A social timebomb is ticking as peasants are forced off their land into homelessness without receiving the promised compensation money. The bloated Dam project has been the state’s flagship enterprise for years. In the coming months the next batch of resettlement comes online - 125,000 farmers will be moved. It’s just a fraction of the 1.13 million people who will be resettled by the time the project is complete in 2014. Will China’s drive to make a success of the dam prove disastrous for the tens of millions downstream from a shoddy dam?
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20 years ago it was possible to interview people with opposing voices, nowadays you won't be able to find one.
I've been looking for an opposing voice for so long that I forgot. Like! ...damn I'm so funny
Well, you know, they can’t complain
@@slamdunktiger they forgot how to
@@gc4161 they're just afraid and don't want to speak
Things starting to go downhill after Hu Jintao's departure.
Living in China over the last 40 years... I’ve seen again and again how amazing the construction is there. Amazingly fast to put up and amazingly fast to fall apart. Really it is the main character of Chinese construction
I saw the video where every modern building collapsed because of the flood, but a 700 years old temple still stand in the water. It was incredible. Ancient Chinese quality buildings are much better than modern one. They need to learn from their ancestors, and take back the quality.
In the last 100 years, anyway.
@@andromedamessier3176 I believe the ancients were not Chinese at all. That's why the father of current premier destroyed most of the ancient marvel's except the walls
@@andromedamessier3176 unreinforced concrete lasts a long time, it's the reason many ancient Roman structures stand. Also, the shoddy stuff from years ago has already fallen, the stuff that's left is often the strongest and best preserved. Construction quality isn't the only factor.
@@izzattaz6290 that's fukn interesting man
A friend of mine who has a factory in China says that even when he visit the factory 50% of his products have defects in them. A example one product was to have 6 rivets in it. He stood there and watch a person only put in 4 rivets. When that person was question he told the owner that what he was told to do. The manager of the factory had a slush fund where he brought the required rivets, but pocket the two rivets then sold them to other companies.
Disgraceful country.
That's China and the CCP (Corrupt Cretins Party) for you.
based manager
This is why channels that take Military Technology commentaries should avoid taking the poisoned fruit of commenting positively on Chinese made technology until its proven in war. They will likely be a pot metal army.
Made in China for you
A long time ago I had a University professor from the Mainland
who taught Chinese history.
He kept telling our class that corruption was invented centuries ago
in China and they never looked back.
1
If they don’t care about their own people then why would they care about anyone else?
A big piece of meat that all flies want to EAT!
They don’t. Who suggested they do. Their behaviour as a global citizen shines a light on their disregard and disdain for anyone outside the CCP.
face is all what matters
HK ROTTEN the house price has nothing with dam collapse, they will say CCP hide the information, Shanghai people don’t know the dam will collapse.
The rumour is coming from Falungong and Taiwan.
God is your witness and from what is being reported you'll need God's help more than ever. Until China learns and adopts practices which place her common peoples first her entire body will continue to die a horrible death one deceased corruption at a time. All rivers, "especially those which have sustained her peoples for thousands of years", are China's life blood. An idea, “poverty is not noteworthy due to the lack of resources but the return to the bare back bone of your nation. Wake Up China the planet wide need you and tomorrow will tell if you can care. Corruption and greed are symptoms of living from fear but this kind of fear historically blind and arrogant...! “停止武器化我們的孩子”, so fear is the last resort instead of flailing cold cash and cheap pride. Corruption behind China's Three Gorges Dam ruclips.net/video/xJn35MTKCNY/видео.html Journeyman Pictures
I'm here because there is a rumour on RUclips that the 3 Gorges Damn will burst...
That the Three Gorges Dam is in trouble is more than just a rumor, because satellite photos show why it's in trouble. Where once the dam was a straight line across the river (when viewed from above), it is now crooked because some sections of the dam have shifted downstream under the pressure of water behind it. The Chinese government claims the satellite images are distorted somehow- yeah, right- but this is the same government that said, "Flu outbreak in Wuhan? What flu outbreak?" But don't take my word for any of this, look at the satellite imagery yourself, it's available on the internet. I saw it in a video posted to RUclips yesterday by China in Focus (the images are at about the 11 minute mark).
@@dustintacohands1107 If the dam did collapse, the loss of life would certainly be horrific, probably in the millions (depending on the suddenness of the collapse) since around 400 million people reportedly live downstream from it. However, I don't think it would be literally the end of the world- a massive blow to the world economy and a humanitarian catastrophe, yes, but worldwide armageddon, no. I suspect a collapse of the dam would bring the Chinese Communist regime down with it, in the same way Chernobyl hastened the downfall of the Soviet Union as Gorbachev later admitted. The ideal outcome would be that the dam stays up and there is political reform, but those satellite photos of the dam are terrifying.
As far as fixing it, I never cease to be amazed at the resourcefulness of world-class engineers to come up with solutions to what seem to be the most intractable problems. But the cost would be staggering; I saw a guesstimate somewhere that a fix would cost more than it did to build the dam in the first place, which was $31 billion USD per Wikipedia. But the biggest problem is finding the political will to institute a repair program, and that is highly unlikely to occur. It would require the regime to admit that due to its incompetence and/or corruption, it bollixed up this showcase project. It is far more likely they will do nothing, ignore the problem, and simply disappear any Chinese engineer who has the temerity to sound the alarm, just like they disappeared the brave doctors who warned of the coming Covid epidemic. Given this, if I were Chinese and living near the Yangtze, I'd pray to every god I could think of that there are light rains in the area for the next hundred years.
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I live in SC... Not near Lake Murray but I find this interesting what they did- built another dam behind the existing dam. China wake up before it is too late
@@loumencken9644 China is experiencing record flooding right now...worst in 40 years is what I read about it.
Christian Bai CCP DOESNT CARE about his people or human, I don’t know if it’s true that Xi Jingpig and dew of his party left the country for asylum. I just feel sorry for chinese people,. Now the virus is getting nastier and no way to stop in spreading, Thanks to the best woman, WHO,CCP for destroying the world and people’s lives.
RIP to all those poor folks who undoubtedly disappeared after appearing in this video.
The cement was even cooled to avoid premature curing when they built the Hoover dam. It has stood the test of time and is one of the greatest civil engineering tasks of all time and they made it beautiful as well as functional . Not so much this one though. Wasn’t this under the control of the CCP? There’s no excuse for not getting a quality build and the Chinese government is not slow to deal with dissenters and malingerers in any other context. This may explain why so many newly minted Chinese millionaires are able to purchase land in other countries and ruin them.
Same here in Australia, they added ice to the cement to slow the curing process which makes it stronger.
Hoover is actually still curing to this day. A controlled thermal cure is the only path to integrity in a massive concrete structure.
The whole world knows what "made in China" means.
Shit dam
They cut corners to make things weaker.
You could also add "Made by Chinese" company.
I work as site engineer for a Chinese company...have already resigned effective mid July which is two weeks from now. It was a relief and untold joy in my heart the moment I submit my letter of resignation. Two riverside retaining wall breaks and collapsed consecutively...more suspected to fail in near future where previous labourer hinted to me the lack of piling--double storey retaining wall right next to a school...various building defect and faulty building plans I have to rectify where design engineer and architect pockets the profit and we engineers on the field had to take up the slack and correct their design while still have to receive the blame and insult for incompetence which totally not our fault...health and safety regulations neglected but I had to sacrifice my own effort to ensure people lives are safe...police bribed to allow illegal foreign workers who work with beneath the bottom level of market wage causing legal foreign workers make so little money they might not even afford to renew their permit...local got robbed and badly injured by foreign workers turned robbers that hq police had to go on a week long hunt for them since local enforcement are corrupt incompetent.
Not anymore...my heart and soul could no longer bear the torment and guilt acting like a slave driver for a greedy employer. My employer may boast his wealth and political influence...I am but a salary man who wishes to work professionally, honest and live a quiet life...possibly playing mmo in my free time...I rather not have huge ambition at the cost of human misery.
Also once I've resigned I will submit a lengthy report and complaint to various related federal agency...I am thankful that the covid-19 pandemic has weaken communist influence in my country in southeast Asia. Perhaps the corrupt officials in my country will ignore my words or at worst silenced me...but the guilt is now on them...if you've seen and experienced what I have seen...you will shudder at how greed had made people inhuman...there are other job with less pay but at least I still have my humanity and if I die, my soul is clean. A site engineer job is high risk and I had friends in the industry who had accident at work and some died...death is a close friend, I wish to meet him free from regrets.
@Sailor Bob i think the money goes all in their weapons
@hans haslang actually no it's not. The virus is nothing. Approx. 0.26 percent death rate.
China will pay a big price for the sub standard design and construction of this dam when it collapses.
They re- unforced the dam with bamboo sticks.🤣🤣
Any day now
do you know this dam affected the earth rotational speed? china should not build this kind of dam so big. it might affected the tectonic plates movement too.
Let's hope that day never comes. The disaster would be an unimaginable catastrophe.
@@jungapo2 Platonic plates? I just spit out my coffee laughing.
0:27 they stole the patent for the dam but forgot to steal the patent for the shovel.
🤣😂 nice eyes
Seen that too
At China's request the U.S. inspected it and found it was sub standard. Immediately they screamed racism LOFL. Yeah okay kids *HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!*
Source?
I saw that too! It was all over the New York Times!
@@sancti5824 New York times buddy...
@jay adams yet it is still better than western countries. Look at the genocide of indigenous people all over the world happended centuries ago, the slavery of the African people, the colonization happend a century ago. U really think that the achievements you guys made today are all because of your hardworking? Behind thr achievements are the dead bodies of innocent people. Btw, the most of the crises happening all over the world now were directly or indirectly caused by ur ancestors centuries ago. Got no idea why you are being so pround of what western countries have achieved. U shall feel shameful when you think you guys are kinda superior. U guys lived off the fat of other people all over the world and are living off the fat of the people all over the world. Wtf are you bragging about? At least China did not improve the livelihood of its people by conquering other peoples land.
@jay adams Ever wondered why there are so many refugees in Europe? Becuase NATO destroyed their home, and they all wanna have a better life.
This documentary is far more relevant now than when this was released because of the looming bursting of the dams due to the historical heavy rainfall.
Earla Gwynn Abejuela ...and the fact that this unnatural dam has been backing the rivers up. It should never have been built.
every gram saved in construction is a Yuan more in the pocket
2023, still waiting for the “looming” collapse
Satellite images from this year show a massive bulge in the dam that has suddenly formed.
This thing may fail any day now.
"Unnatural dam," which man made dams are natural? God the iq of ppl online depresses me.
The more hatred I have for the CCP,, the more sympathy I have for the common Chinese people.
The ccp is destroying Chinese honor, reputation and it's people. I feel bad for the average Joe, the regular guy, and his family
diamond Tran . You hate CCP on what ground? What is your yardstick to judge their incompetency? How many hours have you stay in China?
As overseas Chinese, where our parents sent penny back to China 🇨🇳 in the 60s, we don’t need your sympathy for any Chinese.
Tell me which government in the world is able to elevate 700 million people out of poverty 40 years?
You will probably be happy if China 🇨🇳 is like India today. How much money do you send to India 🇮🇳, they are a few beggars there. You don’t have sympathy here, hypocrites.
@@andywong9847 Lifted the piss poor population above poverty line by changing the definition of poverty?
Andy Wong at the cost of Millions of people killed and starved to death, and more enslaved in camps.
Andy Wong how many PPE did you send home( China still your home no matter what oath of allegiance you took to become citizen in another country) while CCP and WHO lickspittles told the world all was well?nothing to see here..CCP rotten to the core, and many traitors in our governments who take their money
The candor and even the friendliness in that official's tone, especially in speaking to a foreign journalist- unthinkable in today's China.
Require all officials charged with responsibility for any aspect of the dams construction to build and live in homes directly below the dam for 10 years.
seeing this in june 2020 during floods . pillars not mounted in the bedrock have slid multiple feet from their original location. the corruption in all aspects of the party is becoming all to clear.
Is that do? Wow
It’s going to fail
The C.C.P. government is on the Run 🏃 they left Beijing.
They on the Run.
Soon the Dam will collapse.
Incompetence played as large a role as corruption. I'm thinking specifically of incompetent leadership that couldn't maintain quality under a corrupt system that punishes any dissent even if it's critical to raise it.
@Soda Pop Did you saw the bulge on the Dam? It looks like it got shifted.
Our engineers checked it out and said there are problems on the left bank of the dam. Satellite images of this damn over a three-year. Shows that it's starting to buckle especially in left side of the dam. This was one project that you didn't want to put the stamp of made-in-china on. If this thing let's go it would Roar down the Yangtze River and kill millions of people in Shanghai and all down the river. They've have epic flooding going on right now we shall see. It would be extremely tragic and I would not want to be anywhere near that damn River below the dam.
CCP government is also going after nearby countries to take over territories while various countries are having the virus issue. CCP has better spend time and resource to take care of the people of China who will be impacted greatly, ASAP ! :(
@@nanmusic8759 do you think the CCP gives a rat's ass about the people?
AD UNUM TRISTIS yeah who’s gonna buy a house that’s prone to extreme flooding
@@nanmusic8759 Sadly the ccp couldnt care less about the average chinese citizen.
Destroying the livelihoods is one thing. Destroying innocent indoctrinated populous is surely tragic
Substandard Chinese steel combined with cut-rate concrete; what could possibly go wrong?
Well considering that the dam now looks like an overstretched longbow and is on the brink of bursting...... Probably a lot.
Supplied to them by Our county when they purchased a lot of our Cement and scrap Steel.
beats plastered wood and plastered styrofoam
ruclips.net/video/XopSDJq6w8E/видео.html
@white Yeah there's definitely no historical precident set during the Great Leap Forward. Evidence is certainly not available for everyone to see online, nor is it an open secret among knife makers and tool users. 🙄
Sure some Chinese steel is great, but the majority is mainly for looks. The difference in quality is stark between different brands and batches.
The articles you see admonishing people for believing that all Chinese steel is bad, are nearly all pure propaganda. You can tell because they are written to make you feel bad about your assumptions, instead of giving you a factual reason to change your mind, and explaining why it's wrong to assume something without evidence. Propaganda evokes an emotional response from you by playing on your fears and self belief. A convincing argument will challenge you in difficult ways, but relies on reason and evidence to do so.
I like how their greed outweighs their conscience and morals. I love how the woman describes them as flies. 😂
When you drop wet concrete from a height more than 1.5 meters it segregates and looses its strength. This is why we say that the concrete needs to be placed or the placement of concrete. In this video you can see that the concrete is being dropped and not placed and therefore the strength of the concrete has been compromised, not good, not good at all.
Wow, that’s interesting. Now in 2022 big cracks are visible along the top of the dam. What must it be like inside?
Free fall of concrete from heights of up to 150 ft (46 m), directly over rebar or at high slumps, does not cause segregation, or reduce compressive strength. Restricting free-fall heights does decrease concrete production rates, increasing owners' costs without increasing concrete quality and it has been proven.
@@jimmywhitlow2012 wheres a link to your proof?
@@jimmywhitlow2012 Actually the exact opposite has been proven which is why competent contractors use things like elephant trunks to pour from any heights. The difference between your comment and mine is that my comment is factual and can be verified online whereas you just pulled yours out of your azz.
@@jimmywhitlow2012looks like you got paid to post that. We all know it's going to fail sooner or later.
Straw safety helmets, just like their economy.
They look cool though.
Playing devils advocate here;
They are made of wicker or bamboo, they are a bit like the baskets used in Ballooning.
They flex on impact and actually work well
They should export those looks really good way better than the plastic ones
@@hidetsu7249 They wouldn't be allowed, they wouldn't pass health and safety, probable due to fire regs.
I always wanted an American hart hat with the wide brim but because they were aluminium they don't pass the electrical contact regs.
(I think they do do a plastic version now)
@@harveysmith100 Carbon Fiber for the good ones.
I saw the part of concrete being poured. There are a lot of "cold joints" in that structure because of the method. All the re-bar in the world won't help that.
Really...please explain how this will fail.
I hope you can explain it too
@@ragsaea9609 I have poured mud for 50 years--- there are always cold joints (did you KNOW-- the interstat hiway expands 20 feet every morning the sun comes up to when the sun goes down ) not at all the different temp is during the day---- it is what you do with the expansion and the contraction factors during that day--- another words make it so it can.---
@@verngoossen3628 doesnt that mean more cold joints is good cause there is room to expand and contraction? pardon for my curiosity
@BarryJPR thx bro
Over 100 people have died making that damn. Think about that for a second.
First minute: created to prevent flooding hshshshahs
I'm sure a lot of people died making the hoover dam too. Think about that for a second.
In the mind of the Chinese, that's an acceptable mortality rate.
@@mynameisgladiator1933 Yup. Over 100 people died in the construction of the Hoover Dam. Of those, 96 are identified as official "industrial fatalities", allowing the deceased's family to obtain compensation. Two of them were Father and Son the father died first the son followed a few months later. Both buried in perpetuel cement together forever in perpetuity. Think about that for a second Sunny Kay you should have done your research before looking the fool.
Yup. Over 100 people died in the construction of the Hoover Dam. Of those, 96 are identified as official "industrial fatalities", allowing the deceased's family to obtain compensation. Two of them were Father and Son the father died first the son followed a few months later. Both buried in perpetuel cement together forever in perpetuity. Think about that for a second Sunny Kay you should have done your research before looking the fool forever in perpetuity.
If it uses Chinese steel, then it is already doomed.
And their cement
You mean like the new Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Fran? The one where the main anchor bolts have been fracturing and local engineers in the know won't go across it? The one that was under Chinese guarantee on which they reneged?
@A D Sheffield Steel used to be among the best in the world until EU green taxes basically destroyed heavy manufacturing in the UK. Sheffield Steel is now made in Japan, as far as I know. Somebody bought the "brand".
Have a very good day.
"Steel"
Chinese steel is trash...
Well the dam was *Made in China™* so what was everyone expecting?
MADE IN CHINA isn't as bad quality as it used to be 10 years ago.
Eli Manguala yes it gotten worst!
Bravo, Largest dam on the earth since 2003 and still standing. Highest Quality.
4:38 the dude crack the cinderblock with a single hit. It’s a tofu dreg project.
good eyes
Best damn ever
Years later damn starts to warp and CCP blames satellite imaging
@StrategicFooyoo they're opening more flood gates or something like that from the dam at night and sacrificing villages and thanking them for their sacrifices in preparation of the the next flooded that's coming up
@StrategicFooyoo yeah just sucks they are sacrificing villages in hopes something worse doesn't happen. To make it worse they say it still won't help.
@StrategicFooyoo just the ones across Jiangxi, Hunan, Anhui and Hubei provinces
@StrategicFooyoo well the dam secretly released it overnight and didn't really notify any of them. If the dam was never built in the first place people would've never been there so acktually yeah it's the dam
Dam of Corruption (1999): Corruption and shoddy construction threaten the whole future of the Three Gorges Dam project on China’s Yangtze River. WHAT DO COMMUNISTS, RUSSIANS, AND DEMOCRATS HAVE IN COMMON? CORRUPTION, MAS CORRUPTION, WHO IS STANDING FIRMLY IN THE WAY, TRUMP-PENCE VOTE 2020
This was just recommended to me..
After watching NTD report on a possible collapse.
I think this type of dissent has pretty much been crushed in the last 20 years. The Chinese people are very much victims of the CCP.
say that untill they are pointing a gun at you.and oh they will
They are the ones who put them in power
Omg,
They produced not only duplicate goods but also duplicate Dams.
Poor people.
Here before it collapses.
Stolen western technology even with that this Dam will fail eventually.
Failed already
Yes it is true chi ese stolen anything good for themselves from anyway in the world not only from West. But western politicians have been so stupid to bring up communist leaders to the world stage. Nor China is really powerful brutal and dangerous country. It threats everywhere even usa lol.
@Moto Guzzi europe is worse.
it stole,killed,raped,took all natural resources, technologys and knowledge. tried and did destroy most cultures around the world,enslaved them,tortured them,ecc.
This has happened hundreds of times.
Examples include north america, south america,india,middle east, africa and pretty much the entire world.
Quality Control is not a Chinese thing, hiring western engineers is racist....when the dam breaks it will wash Wuhan down to Shanghai
Joseph Olson, yes it probably will
@jimmy jimmy > the other Chinese invasion, send a thousand miles of Yangtze to Taiwan
@StrategicFooyoo > base not keyed into bedrock and slipping, even Chinese engineers said "only 80 chopsticks of steel for every cubic meter of concrete" > and ALL materials were substandard > Maoist apologist are nuts
@StrategicFooyoo > as structural engineer for 35 years, I might be better informed than Mao trolls
@StrategicFooyoo > "Unequivocal 9/11 Nukes" > principia-australia(.)org
"Exposing NIST Jenga Game" >
VeteransToday(.)com >
guest on CoastToCoastAM(.)com multiple times
It is very disturbing, what we are learning about CCP and its way of corruption, and not at least their lack of respect of human lives. People of the world needs to wake up, fast and strong. Thanks for this very useful video!
I’m no structural engineer, but significant depth is required to anchor the load above. When this splits, and it will, it will be like nothing ever seen before.
Did everyone forget when China was buying ALL the raw materials on the planet.
Concrete and rebar were all headed to China. It literally stopped most of the construction in the U.S.
In Britain we stopped the making of steel. It was all being imported cheap from china. Making thousands unemployed/out of work.
Kind of ironic that here in 2020, they have been getting massive rain and the dam wall has moved 1/4 inch every year since then
7:50 is really crazy. People under a waterfall holding a scaffolding, which holds a failing dam..... incredible.
Chinese people do NOT shop at Walmart. They know what shoddy work their fellow countrymen do.....
I remember watching this, thinking you can't mess with nature without a huge backlash.
@Moto Guzzi God has a way of making people pay for hubris.
And here is Duterte president of philippines want his projects done by chinese.
Usa did in the 1800s building the railroad. When they were finished the gvmt got rid of the Chinese in san Francisco. Documentary on it
@@shebastinson7813 that was different, I'm talking about quality.
Paulo because he is bought
He's getting a handout by the Chinese if he can make it happen I'm sure of it its government 101 corruption happens almost in every country.
More corruption
0:28 Chinese guy digging the dam with a stick. Fantastic.
Why aren't they moving these people to their "ghost cities"?
Fair point,but if you've ever worked in local authority you'll know logic is irrelevant, as long as the politicians arses are licked, l went deep throat/whistleblower,l told my reporter what questions to ask and fair play he did(and honered my confidentiality..well he wants more inside info)
Pepperdog181@gmail.com 😎🚜
@Joost FF this was long before ghost cities appeared.
Even if the ghost cities were built at the time of the video, the quality of construction of those cities is complete garbage. There are videos on YT of buildings in these cities that are only a few years old and already falling apart inside and out.
@@garadgantal1438 i think u missing the point. the corruption happened before ghost cities. but the cases now the dam probably will break, and asking why gov not move them/people to ghost city.
The same reason they won't take responsibility with a virus they unleashed on the world. To save their 'face' which is laughably the dumbest thing
How many MILLIONS will DIE, when the DAM RUPTURES?😳🤔
about 400 million
@@rynz_2893
Is that why the C.C.P. government is on the RUN 🏃
Not enough .
0:30 man digging with a piece of wood? And way away from all the action in some random place....? Weird.
To cut corners on such a huge job will bite them in the ass.
"all this mess" pretty much sums up what CCP considers its own people.
Makes your heart sink. Corruption, money, greed, lies... everywhere.
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”. So true.
When the dam breaks...
How many life will be wipe off?🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
400 million people in the flood below the dam maybe 40 million injuries and 4 million killed by the dam breaking. Could this be the end of the communist regime in China?
230,000 this time
www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/230000-died-in-a-dam-collapse-that-china-kept-secret-for-years/91699/
And they hit it from the public just like they have with the CCP coronavirus which has killed between 2 and 3 million people
In 1975 the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam and other dams in Henan Province, China caused more casualties than any other dam failure in history. The disaster killed an estimated 171,000 people and 11 million people lost their homes.
CJ Denton the Chinese government is to blame, not the people. They have no say in government. They are innocent. Still, when it breaks, the backlash will be good
@@Exanto777 I really hope so, China needs to be free
The dude @:29 digging with a stick tells me everything I need to know.
Within the first 40 seconds there is a worker using a 2x4 (a manufactured stick) to dig that’s real quality 🤯🙏🏻
21 years after this documental, the dam is breaking down. For a building that should've had at least a 100 years designed operative life its unacceptable, as a civil engineer I feel disgusted
What are you talking about?, The dam is fine. As a civil engineer you shouldn't panic and believe shoddy satelite pictures.
@@ulyks there was a couple of internal reports too. Luckily it seems like the repairs are going aok and that marvel of engineering is fine. Tho it should've never gone to that extreme without a cataclysmic level natural disaster.
These people live in fear of speaking there truth and sharing there opinions. Its amazing they would allow themselves to be so restrained and muted. Living in fear or your government over speaking out is not living its just existing day to day.
Welcome to America! Smdh. Wake up idiot! America is the same if not worse. They just tell you it isn't and since your head is buried in the sand you just agree and keep going. Leaving any critical thought to your media gods!
different leader different outcome
@@mikehunt8375 The fact that you are criticizing America freely shows that you and other Americans are not brainwashed.... You understand that the chinese cannot say anything negative about their government right??? There is not right, independent or left media there is just CCP "media" in other words propaganda at its finest. You will NEVER see a mainland chinese criticizing something about the CCP
imagine what stories we would get if the Chinese people were able to speak to journalists or make their own citizen journals and if they were able to share their experiences we could get a true feel for what life in china is like for the common folk (peasants). This documentary is rare now a days for people, specially officials, and project managers to be able to speak so candidly about their individual experiences.
The RUclips algorithm is actually doing its job well recommending this now as dozens of Chinese dams collapsed this month.
Nostradamus has predicted a huge dam failure in July 2020, and looks like he is going to get it right again....
Yeah, like the Corona virus is not enough...
@@maxmagnus777 and floods... and locusts... and wars... and people going medieval beating one another with metal rods with large spikes in them lmao
Today It's 6/26/2020..TIME WILL TELL.
@@garyyoung2320 it's not the average Chinese that are at fault this is biblical ! We all need to pray for one another and Unite as one ! The CIA AKA China is the same as the USA even if I'm wrong and I know that I'm not it's the only way it will not get any better
All things happens for some reason,,,, 💦 source of life,,,, 🤔the Buddha is smiling 🤔
The materials of that dam are of such a poor quality that I'm surprised that it hasn't broken already
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This is terrifying. I feel so badly for the ordinary folks, they have no protection at all.
"To prevent floods"
Press *X* to doubt.
"Designed to prevent floods..."
Weather gods in June 2020 - "Hold my beer..."
Done massive destruction
This video aged well
Yep, the dam however is another story altogether. Soon™
THE DAM WAS BUILT HOLLOW AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT WHEN THE FIRST LAYER COLLAPSES, THE REST WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE MASS AND MOMENTUM OF ALL THAT WATER AND CLAY BRICKS, COVERED IN CHEAP CONCRETE, S'WHY IT WAS ALREADY FLAKING OFF AS IT DRIED OUT. BEIJING... WHERE IS IT? WHERE'S THE AIRPORT??? DO WE HAVE THE RIGHT CHARTS?
Beginning part of video shows a guy moving dirt with a stick. Yup, take a bunch of peasants, give them a stick because a shovel is too expensive, and pay them sub standard livable wages to build a massive project. What could go wrong?>
Just as an update (June 28, 2020): there's significant concern the dam may collapse, as severe warping of the structure can even be seen from satellite photos.
I love the term “Tofu construction !! Sounds like it will melt in the rain !!
So many human lives will be in grave danger if that dam collapses. I pray the mighty hand of God can hold back the dam and recede the waters 🙏
Well, I guess we will soon find out how good the construction really is...
@StrategicFooyoo Open your door to let the flood water in. Thank you for your sacrifice.
Gorges dam.....Sub standards material and weak contructions!will remain death of thousand of people..!!!
AMERICA AND THE WORLD SHOULD BROADCAST THIS TO THEIR RESIDENTS.
Just tell me my friend, name 1 government that do not has any corruption at all.
Thank you for making this video/information available.
And now here in 2020, the dam is at risk of giving way due to its questionable construction.
7:25.... that concrete is not fit for a sidewalk.... it will not settle and fill the rebar casings....
Just from looking at it. Are you a concrete form work specialist?
Chinese worker is digging with a 2" x 4"?
0:23
OH MY GOD, the utter state of that concrete reinforced rebar.
It's not a question of if Three Gorges Dam will collapse.
It's a question of when.
"being built to the highest international safety standards" as they pour concrete from way to high above the rebar cage with BAMBOO scaffolding
One of the few RUclips videos that it won't let me download. Not a good sign.
That is unusual.It's not impossible to download though. Go to one of those sites where you can copy paste the hyperlink and that should work.
Go to this site...save from net.
"epic corruption and mismanagement" it's just so funny the way they put that
7:22. I've been round a lot of construction projects in my life. I hate to say it but that concrete being poured doesn't look like any I've ever seen.
Who’s here in 2020
At 15:00. She calls houses where poor live a 'mess'. Disgusting. Shows the kind of thought process these people have.
Deplorables.
just pave over it and brand new! gotta love how little they care in china
They are a mess
Opening sequence: "The size and scale are breathtaking." *pan to man shoveling soil with a 2x4* Very well funded, too!
Caught that too eh..lol and the scaffolding, my god.
It was not properly secured into the bed rock. Just literally poured on top of it. I dont think they used coated rebar either and probably used a low psi concrete. It WILL fail. Images clearly show the process has already started. Shear is already happening.
Its been raining heavily for the past months. The water level is at 148 m while the max tolerable level
for the dam is set at 145 m. The dam is still standing as of today June 23, 2020
Its over its max?
No wonder it’s currently flooding nearby towns
Now, the dam is a risk to collapse after a heavy rainfall and flooding upstreams. The dam has released water to downstream in order to relieve the pressure on the dam. Now, the upstream and downstream are also flooded. What's the point of building the dam from the beginning with?
The dam is permanently closed as a tourist attraction. Could that be because they don't want ANYONE to take a telescopic photo from one end of the structure to the other end- a photo that would clearly reveal whether or not the road, or handrails or whatever was originally Installed along the top of the dam, was still straight. They would have a hard time claiming all tourists' photos are photo shopped to make them look bad. Better to ban all site photos outright and then go with the "satellite photos are inaccurate and doctored by hostile foreign governments to bring shame upon us." That'll clear the problem right up, and isn't any more rediculous than their claims about having no new covid-19 cases at all for weeks.
14:58 tourist guide call the small houses a "mess" 😂😂
wtf
YES! WHEN THAT DAMN BREAKS THERE IS GOING TO BE SOME EPIC BIG WAVE LONG BOARD SURFING! ;)
Ironic because it looks like it’s going to burst
Back when ABC Australia had journalistic integrity, instead of far-left compliance.
The same
They never had any, they just hid it well
Solid documentary, I can’t imagine anyone, let alone and Aussie company, doing such good Chinese journalism today
When building something like this you have to pour the concrete quickly so the adjacent section will weld or "stick" to it. Just a thought.
A dam built in the 1990's is going to burst, and as bad it is it looks like it will be soon. Due to the incompetency of the CCP despite concerns and corruption, lives have been lost, and places damaged for years to come. However take a look at historic landmarks like the rainbow bridge, which has unfortunately been damaged. Its amazing a bridge is 900 years old and there's still sections that remain and have withstood the waters now and before. A bridge that is almost 1000 years old does a better job than the three gorges dam, architects then designed the base of the bridge with a purpose in mind to slow waters speed downstream. Rather than CCP funded corporations embezzling money and building something that only looks good but will ultimately have no function. When it does collapse I pray for the ordinary people, and hopefully, these recent events will show the world that communism needs to be drowned out forever.
This is the way it works in China. The government allocates $1000 for each resident, but does not publicize the amount. From the top level, the directive gets passed on to lower and lower level until it reaches the local district that distributes the fund. By the time each resident receives the fund, it's around $10.
No wonder it started to show sign of weakness against this years flood.
There is more steel in the Berkley city high school foot for foot than there is in that dam
The size is breathtaking. *Flips towel and proceed to use stick as a shovel*
Quote: "There is no corruption!" ...."Excuse me while I count the latest addition to my bank account from the central government!"
And bury the homes and heritage of the people...