China is Building an Insane Artificial River

[@michaelkaliski7651]

Surely an artificial river is more correctly called a canal.

[@Steamrunner]

With China's record with messing with Mother Nature, it might be called another mass causality event when it crumbles.

[@EarlFisher-k6w]

Shirley can call her canal an artificial river if she wants.

[@Alex-lc1bv]

​@@EarlFisher-k6w😂

[@rebornfenix4412]

But artificial river is a better click baitey title

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Not an Aqueduct then? Maybe they just don't want to give any credit to the Romans.

[@patrickcowan8701]

62 billion would only cover the planning phase in America.

[@JohnJones-k9d]

Kickbacks to congress you mean.

[@irvingchies1626]

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

[@foodparadise5792]

Yea, the funding for first 5 years and set up the stage for milking....

[@dowmein]

"In whataboutism we trust"

[@omnomnom5359]

@@irvingchies1626 source?

[@huas5350]

But at what cost? Very BBC 😂

[@nitrologly]

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...😅

[@LG-xr4bd]

@@nitrologlynah more like every US success followed by “at what cost?” unimaginable. This is because media and education get their narratives from think tanks.

[@tigading2177]

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.

[@jamesrecknor6752]

@@nitrologly Imagine if he talked about those natives of Asia attacking other tribes. That would not be Party approved Correct Speech for Allowed Thinking.

[@TerangaGD]

​@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.

[@muzzy1912]

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...

[@retsaMinnavoiG]

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).

[@oceanwave4502]

High energy cost will definitely have an significant impact on everything in Western Europe. The deindustrialization is probably happening there.

[@anched]

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.

[@ThisWontEndWell]

The Tories had been buying up land so they could compulsorily purchase it at inflated prices, we are paying for the corruption.

[@sanzhang-tx1zm]

@@retsaMinnavoiG Were you alive in 1930?

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

$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).

[@emjay6828]

It's so cheap because it will collapse in less than 10 years

[@adamwu4201]

@@emjay6828 当初也有人这样说三峡。

[@offtheroad9355]

Its so expensive and takes so long, because of corruption.

[@guynorth3277]

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.

[@柳泪猫猫头]

懒得喷你😂​@@emjay6828

[@DeEmperor1]

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.

[@PatriciaPalmer-o3e]

One has nothing to do with the other. Allocated monies for unsuccessful projects that significantly damage necessary resources for population survival is a disaster. That is what America has called expensive.

[@PatriciaPalmer-o3e]

Wumao

[@heanarco]

And currently the US people are angry because Biden have issues to rebuild towns damaged by an hurricane. The coherence was so hilarious.

[@hurrikkkanes2533]

western commentators in 3rd century BCE: " China is building an Insane Artificial Wall, but at what cost?"

[@plmokm33]

Considering how many worker's bodies are buried under the base I'd say that's not a bad question to ask.

[@ericf1461]

Do not know the price yet…. But without pay in something first , what do you expect to come out?

[@entropybear5847]

Considering how often China was conquered by northern barbarians...

[@ericf1461]

⁠​⁠@@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?

[@plmokm33]

@@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.

[@AlexAnder-rv1gu]

3:22 "many *agriculturalists* lost everything." I couldn't help but pause and take note of such an interesting avoidance of the word "farmer".

[@respawnlock666]

Its the dialect of english called "hipster" they need to sound more educated then everyone else hense why they use complicated worlds instead of easily digestable descriptions. Its like how they use the term "client relations specialist" instead of cashier or help desk. They Gotta sound more sophisticated or somthing i guess so they can predent their shiet dont stink or something. 😅

[@bobfg3130]

Because farms are a western thing.

[@bobfg3130]

​@@respawnlock666 No, he's trying to be accurate. Shut up.

[@VVayVVard]

@@respawnlock666 On the Internet, this is more typically used as an anti-algorithm measure. Failing to tiptoe around words deemed "politically sensitive" can result in various degrees of visibility penalty. On YT, this applies to both videos and comments.

[@Avoxalus]

Farmers and agriculturalists aren't the same thing

[@hrvojebartulovic7870]

An artificial river?😂 Aren't they called canals?

[@Doubie.]

I think they’re less going for canal and more for the la river I bet it will work out just as well

[@ALFforPresident]

Yes, and it is reffered to as a canal throughout the video. Here is your sign. Hold it up high please.

Qanat.

[@kazalozaloo8307]

Propaganda propaganda

[@highlandoutsider]

​@@ALFforPresidentis that a Bill Engvall reference in the wild? 😂🔥🤌

[@johnmcglynn4102]

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.

[@mrzoinky5999]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@Campaigner82]

Agreed

[@wkgurr]

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.

[@Tealeafs1]

Totally agree to much rambling BS Simon needs to do better.

[@StoutProper]

Think this video was written and put together by AI

[@Kolendamp]

Here in Brazil we have the Transposition of the Rio Sao Francisco, it also was expensive, but it is working fine

[@chopinmack5418]

China is working on Trades & Infrastructure projects . The US is working on Wars , Gang Fights & Bad-mouthing China .

[@Nagria2112]

Actual Video starts at @08:00 for the people who dont need a china history lesson.

[@kenoliver8913]

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".

[@peanutbutterjelly582]

16 billion funding, so must insert some crimes of PRC lol

[@XYRELOADED]

Thank you

[@f1aziz]

Thanks, I was getting tired of rolling my eyes.

[@Bombasticbomb1]

Thank you very much

[@dipling.pitzler7650]

In Europe the refurbishing of one museum started in 2013 will cost 1,5 Billion and allegedly will open in 2037!No joke!

[@twood2032]

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.

[@DesertFernweh]

@@dipling.pitzler7650 Details?

[@FallenLeavesReturnToRoots]

😱😱😱

[@robertsutton3001]

It’s gonna be outdated by the time it’s ready. That’s how corruption works btw. They stole 95%

[@cloudwithwind574]

big joke

[@duyataksis5210]

$62 billion. Or, in other words, less than a tenth of the Pentagon's annual budget. Pretty sweet deal.

[@sugarpuddin]

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!

[@TheBlackBuddha17]

@@sugarpuddin thats not enough. triple the defense budget and create the department of offense with a budget of $1.5T

[@trvst5938]

That’s why they’ll dominate why’ll the says collapses at the hands of Peter Thiel backed Musk and Trump. 😪💀

[@TheDanEdwards]

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.

[@earthwizz]

@@TheDanEdwards Meanwhile US infrastructure is old and crumbling.

[@Spaceman719]

It’s not like China has any experience in water control… cough cough Dujiangyan water resource management system that was built 2000 years ago!! 🙄

[@frisianmouve]

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

[@Spaceman719]

@ 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.

[@kuku4629]

@@frisianmouve 笑死了，狗屁都不懂在这里臆想。

[@OrontesRM]

It's not like China has recently destroyed the ecosystem of its own land in order to build, say, dams or other megaprojects, no.

[@fuethao8633]

@@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.

[@mark4371]

As J Clarkson stated in a top gear episode, there ain’t no mountain high enough no river wide enough to stop Chinese engineering

[@MT.2012]

Just skip to 8:15

[@cheney9614]

Thanks bro 谢谢🎉

[@atheneus]

okay so almost half the video is anti-China propaganda ... wtf

[@HomieMS-o5y]

The UK wasn't able to build 140 miles of high-speed rail track for the entire price of the Three Gorges Dam.

[@pieterveenders9793]

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.

[@gjl4101]

@@pieterveenders9793I’m sure all that money went to the workers not the politicians 😂

[@VVayVVard]

Says the user with a randomly-generated name with no avatar who registered 6 months ago who is totally not getting paid by a certain country to post this comment.

[@mrD66M]

This isn't just about money. The UK's bureaucratic apparatus is extremely, painstakingly slow at big building projects... Channel Tunnel was the last one, and it was a joint enterprise with the French. Maybe London should be an independent country, as they for sure don't follow the same rules as everywhere else😅

[@turktownblue70]

So about Hoover Dam? Etc. Or is it only playing with nature when China does it?

[@WeAreQuestionDutch]

Or, all those explosions in all these western made wars.

[@thewingedringer]

It's playing with fire, regardless of who does it.

[@allanmason3201]

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.

[@eno2870]

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.

[@bugsygoo]

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.

[@in4ser]

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

[@Madwonk]

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.

[@yudogcome5901]

​@@Lesaucissondujour Dujiangyan is indeed worth a visit. You will be amazed at the hydrological technology and ingenious ideas of humans thousands of years ago.

[@syncmaster915n]

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.

[@motorphina]

Your username is sick as hell, love it.

[@Lesaucissondujour]

@yudogcome5901 I will likely never visit China, as people aren't free to have thoughts & opinions there.

[@chitru1983]

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.

[@polemicification]

I appreciate the speaker making his bias clear in the first 5 seconds of the video.

[@blackknight4996]

You can't escape your own bias and had a rear orifice pain....dude...beat it. China beats "your kind" flat!

[@AlbertowitschFlordecamp]

not just bias. My question was: who paid for this?

[@juslitor]

@@AlbertowitschFlordecamp damn, chinese moomin trolls this time of year, shame on you.

[@blackknight4996]

@@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?

[@DesertFernweh]

Found the Sino bot.

[@cbongiova]

$62 billion is nothing. California wants to spend 2x that for a slow speed train. SMH

[@davidt02]

So many shades to throw for an engineering channel.

[@plmokm33]

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.

[@tobipaul-fm8wn]

Criticism

[@plmokm33]

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.

[@Kmichaelcook87]

His accent is doing a lot of the heavy lifting from a xenophobia standpoint 😂

[@jackoneill28]

@@plmokm33 So that's why the west is so broken nowadays.

[@Warren-pe1un]

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

[@thewingedringer]

Yeah we get it, China is the center of the world and everyone revolves around it

[@nahoj.2569]

@@thewingedringer That was pretty much the truth for a thousands years, no?

[@nonesocruel]

Lol😂

[@nonesocruel]

No😮 ​@@nahoj.2569

[@juslitor]

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.

[@gvhuang]

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.

[@SamFirtle]

Its a good job people like you clearly know more about Chinese geography than the 1.4 Billion Chinese.

[@Turkey936]

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.

[@fatetwister]

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.

[@pikachus5m166]

What Western projects?.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

That's not true. He absolutely trashed the HS2 rail project in the UK

[@boxtears]

He has multiple channels as well, and somehow manages to regularly pump out high production videos for all of them. I'd bet good money he's not actually a creator, just the face of a massive propaganda ring.

[@zajacztamas7]

​@@enadegheeghaghe6369Sure, but did he bring up centuries of colonialism and genocide committed by the Brits in that video? Because that's basically what the first 8 minutes of this one was.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

@@zajacztamas7 So every video about every project any where must be prefaced by a discussion of the centuries of genocide and colonialism by Western countries? What?

[@juraj696]

Imagine watching this and living in Flint Michigan....

[@nahoj.2569]

yhhhaha

[@bugsygoo]

China's water is much worse than that.

[@nicholastaiariol2631]

Flints water is cleaner than any city in China

[@randy7928]

I'm sure plenty of people are trying to figure out how to get water from Canada to California

[@robertbslee4209]

Much cheaper to desalinate in California

[@cheney9614]

I'm Chinese. Shocked me...!😮How？

[@robertbslee4209]

@@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.

[@kiendao2818]

​@@robertbslee4209😂😂😂Is the California Railroad finished?

[@k.c1126]

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.

[@Lord_Juvens]

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 🤣

[@李小白-x4v]

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.

[@horehound]

$62 billion still half the cost on HS2 and HS2 will now not be fully completed

[@DewtbArenatsiz]

Too many stuffed brown envelopes

[@tigading2177]

@@DewtbArenatsiz There's a lot of grease needed for any projects in US, UK.

[@et5222]

$62 billion about one-third of what the US Congress has budgeted for the Ukraine-Russia war...

[@TrikYodz]

Right when I was about to start folding my laundry, I’m looking for something to watch, and this just got uploaded. Thanks guys.

[@ronnieastle1284]

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

[@Viylic]

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.

[@derekspringer6448]

Heaarrrrrdddd that buddy! "Wow, that commercial was sure loud... What's my volume at? Christ... 97%? WHY!?" -Me......... and you, probably

[@88njtrigg88]

I'm hearing you.

[@GalopaWXY]

The music interludes are also a lot louder smh

[@bishopp14]

WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING ANYMORE! (EARBUDS)

[@nzr460t]

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.

[@TheViewerView]

What you might not know is that the Chinese civilisation has been creating canals and making artificial rivers since ancient history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_canals_in_China

[@fredsmith2277]

yeah the ancient canal were designed by experts and worked as intended, modern designs are hair brained schemes ???

[@kurtkapo6475]

Thanks

[@hustler3of4culture3]

It's good to know just how much one can nit pick. Amazing

[@by_jadson]

Why does every video about something good about China have to start with anti-communism?

[@eadweard.]

It's like those videos about Nazi planes and stuff. Why do they always have to talk about Nazi atrocities first?

[@rog4464]

That's the protocol.

[@by_jadson]

@@rog4464 from CIA.

[@白搁这儿乱了]

​@@eadweard.白痴纳粹等于共产党？那以色列为什么和纳粹建交？

[@hughesy606]

40M corpses can do that

[@HawaiiLimey]

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.

[@UYT7715Flower]

consider it costs 1/4 of what US spent for Ukraine in 2 years. It is quite a bargain.

[@hermanhsu5994]

Westerners loved the time stand-still before the '80s, and China would stay down forever. Well, your wishes are not granted.

[@thewingedringer]

The West is what allowed China to grow lol

[@pieterveenders9793]

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.

[@TheRealIronMan]

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

[@avekyo9920]

I remember a few months ago the US Congress approved 1.6 billion to do such a thing

[@sed9406]

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.

[@jackoneill28]

@@sed9406 Yes, I myself often counter that with the Great Depression.

[@zajacztamas7]

This is the kind of propaganda that when done by anyone other than US allied nations would be called brainwashing and totalitarian, yet when done at the behest of these countries it's seen as rational and natural. The hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me.

[@geared2cre8]

And Chinese love to hate America and try to prove that their country doesn't suck 😂😂😂😂😂

[@nanzh8358]

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.

[@shaundudley4576]

These people hate Chinese people so much they invent and fantasize about gruesome mass death events for their entertainment

[@user-vv7ir1pl4j]

basically a modern aquaduct.

[@IvanSam1]

Developing countries put effort to make life better for his people.. western media "that is very concerning"

[@sbmk8680]

whenever China builds something the west loses their mind🤣🤣

[@tigading2177]

they will freak out even if China just farts!!!

[@chopinmack5418]

China is working on Trades & Infrastructure projects . The US is working on Wars , Gang Fights & Bad-mouthing China .

[@Mana-xd2tp]

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.

[@Cookiesantos777]

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.

[@nonesocruel]

Taiwan has real engineering, ccp low quality intellectual theft 99.9 percent of everything that is there

[@whokilledmax]

Just some background information, since canal was put into use, the groundwater level in the Beijing area has recovered from 25 meters to 14 meters, and many wetlands are being revitalized, bringing back rivers that have been dead for a century. At the same time, the depth of water wells in some parts of Spain has increased from 1000m to 2000m level. Which one is good? As an ordinary person, I may not be able to tell you the final answer, let history make the judgment.

[@jackabubba]

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.

[@ShawnHCorey]

Yes, countries are always promise not to restrict water to their downstream neighbours. Until a drought starts.

[@joshlewis575]

The future water wars are gonna be something

[@robertdiehl1281]

Too many mouths drinking water.

[@fuzzyhair321]

To much waste of water

[@mrbaab5932]

Like the Colorado River in USA 🇺🇸 that dries up just before it reaches Mexico 🇲🇽.

[@Tonyx.yt.]

@@robertdiehl1281 human drinking is an extremly tiny ammount of freshwater consumption in the world...

[@davecai999]

gosh, if our ancestors were content with whatever the nature has thrown at them, we might still be living on a tree in East Africa.

[@gibzrival1565]

Why worry what other countries spend their money on, even if they decide to spend their whole gdp on infrastructure that's their business

[@brendo7363]

Imagine a country INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE? insane.

[@aaroncapricorn5867]

seems more like water and water rights confiscation - and what cost to nature?

[@bluesky-ui7qf]

@@aaroncapricorn5867 The supposed cost is that I get to drink clean water, while you, suffering my contempt, run off and cry to Greta Thunberg.

[@DampQuiche]

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!

[@DampQuiche]

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.

[@richard-davies]

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.

[@EarlFisher-k6w]

Watching this on a something screen on a something phone. And i agree that the color has gotten poor.

[@NnH_Kairyu]

The saturation on Simon's new camera has to be adjusted. 😂

[@e2rqey]

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.

[@ArchsStanton]

*SO SIMON: TELL US ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA CENTRAL AND STATE WATER PROJECTS..........*

[@JinghisKhan]

Fun fact, $62B for the entirety of the project so far, with two major phases completed and already working, is still cheaper than the British HS2 line cost from London to Birmingham alone.

[@anthonyfrench3169]

I gotta thank the editing. The new font for the chapters look great.

[@markshaker8567]

why bother showing this if all you do is criticize its past.

[@tigading2177]

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]

because the point is to critisize surely

[@tigading2177]

@@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]

One must remember the past, as to not repeat its mistakes in the future.

[@tigading2177]

@@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.

[@samiraperi467]

That sounds like something Soviet Union would have attempted. Because they did.

[@avekyo9920]

China has been doing this for thousands of years... Hyperscale

[@yvanpimentel9950]

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.....

[@coinopanimator]

I read a paper years ago saying that the closure of uk canals would increase flooding and restrict water distribution as the old water network was an efficient way of distributing water around the country.

[@nicksonsicnawa9607]

Well, compare that 63 billion from what Murica spend in WAR.

[@jakezonis17]

62 billion is nothing compared to what the US spent on losing the Ukraine War

[@DesertFernweh]

Losing!? Silly bot.

[@Enalog3]

​@@DesertFernwehBy what metric do you conclude otherwise? Genuine question.

[@seraphimworms899]

@@DesertFernweh Yep, losing. I trust D. Trump.

[@superchargerone]

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.

[@boxtears]

He has multiple channels too and every time China is mentioned, it's always in a negative light. Never positive. He's just a paid propagandist.

[@calebbrown6735]

How do you clean the sediment out after it builds up...

[@DK-gj5sp]

They have the way with machines

[@FT4Freedom]

Slurry vacuums.

[@VictorY-mu6zp]

Desander at inlet that removes most of the sediment, consistent flow velocity along canal due to constant slope

[@TheKyleLazarus]

Cool. Thanks for trimming the beard ✊️

[@rnadome-rt7lj]

The world according to Simon... US/UK does something new.. Simon, "great, marvelous achievement showing what Western ingenuity is capable of." China does it... Simon, "We should be cautious here as toying with mother nature can be dangerous. Also this shows China's exploitive behavior."

[@joshb6470]

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

[@fuzzyhair321]

We are talking about micro of micro secondes here. Like thousands of seconds

[@joshb6470]

@@fuzzyhair321 today and that's an imbalance, ever had a speed wobble when driving and know the outcome?

[@endjfcar]

​@@joshb6470 You okay?

[@fuzzyhair321]

@@joshb6470 dude we are talking about different scales here. At most it's so small effect that's it's barely noticeable

[@highlandoutsider]

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 😯🤯

[@BigHeadAvenger]

Because diverting major rivers NEVER goes disastrously wrong. 😑

[@eadweard.]

Does it go wrong often?

[@pieterveenders9793]

@@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.

[@VoicesInDark]

​@@eadweard. Pretty often. See (former) Aral Sea, where river was diverted and one of biggest fresh lakes in the world is no more. Instead there is an ecological catastrophe.

[@eadweard.]

@@VoicesInDark Well I'm not sure that one case shows that it happens "fairly often".

[@charlest1984]

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]

Of course they can, they follow Maoism, not Leninism like the pesky russians did.

[@pieterveenders9793]

@@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.

[@robertbslee4209]

This $62 billion river will never make a profit but like its high speed rail hundeds of millions Chinese will benefit and underpin trillions for the Northern economy for generations

[@j.c.4192]

at what cost? It's going to be beneficial for thousands of years like the grand canal connected to the Yangtze river.

[@christopherkeefe7716]

Water is one of the main reasons China took Tibet😊

[@comentedonakeyboard]

And it could become the reason for China to take Siberia🤔

[@greentraveler4114]

Water and resources are the main reasons why European immigrants took others soils and Mexicans land.

[@nangongyiyun]

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.

[@plmokm33]

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?

[@juslitor]

And I bet you think that the Uyghurs also wanted to be relocated.

[@nangongyiyun]

@juslitor And I bet you have never been to Xinjiang, nor have you seen a living Uighur

[@juslitor]

@@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.

[@nangongyiyun]

@@juslitor Don't you even watch the KZbin 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?

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

It's not a megaproject if 'The B1M' doesn't cover it lol

[@jaylooppworld381]

I like the fact that most of the commentators here are watching it only for entertainment. They know well that this guy is a podcast version of BBC. UK, US Spain, France grew up like saints, without a single drop of blood of Africans, Asians and native Americans. 😂😂😂

[@BigSharkB]

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

[@kasraeskandari9351]

if the first 8 minute of shyt talking china didn't convinced me, that YET at @11:00 made me sure this is a propaganda channel and not a scientific channel. Unsubscribing have a good day

[@martinstallard2742]

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

[@bigL29]

Why you always lying?

[@davidhanson8728]

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.

[@grandaddyoe1434]

For all the good it did them . . . . or didn't do ?

[@jilbertb]

Because all the billions of gallons of water already diverted is not fit for human consumption?

[@cliveocnacuwenga4615]

AFter producing electricity on the Mabja Zangbo river in Tibet, some of that water can be funneled towards the norther areas to provide an additional source of liquid support. India would still have massive volumes of water to add to the Ganges river. The world must not begrudge China its willingness to use its resources in creative ways. Africa has many rivers but the water all flows out to sea. WHY? If China can use the same water six times before it flows out to sea or is sunk in the desert, MORE POWER TO THEM.

[@cerellitv2978]

There is only one country, and it's called earth. We live there. Together.

[@ageofatheism6638]

The "Hu line" was first , the "wat line" was second and "I don't know " was third.

[@mrzoinky5999]

LOL

[@oldsoul5263]

O yes the bald guy with the fancy accent... I'm here for it! 😊

[@sc-gy3te]

Yeah, I tried to make it through to the end….. but the more I listened the more I didn’t care

[@gman6055]

Fake accent you mean. Very contrived

[@spectrotekservices]

Thanks for another great video!

[@はると-y2f1n]

Very nice uploads. Pls keep posting the alikes. Sure billions around the globe will be interested in watching them.

[@wk9378]

He can't make up his mind to be anti Chinese or presenting a remarkable engineering project. Giving criticism without any technical data.

[@bryancook3233]

I remember following this project years ago. Shame its gone sideways as the Original Concept was very interesting.

[@liuliwuyugmail]

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.

[@Liminghwa]

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.

[@dakawans83]

Mismanagement from Communism.

[@juslitor]

I doubt the cause of death matters to those concerned, Dead is still Dead.

[@Liminghwa]

@ 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.

[@-Katastrophe]

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]

Master planning of an economy hasn’t played out well historically.

[@kamsunleong6648]

​@@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.

[@baomao7243]

@@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).

[@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751]

​@@kamsunleong6648yeah what's a million killed between friends

[@FullLengthInterstates]

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.

[@欧阳轩辕-z3y]

Explain China's project with the utmost malice. The West likes to accuse China of controlling public opinion. But the West is the one best at guiding public opinion. Some Westerners in the comment section started talking about CCP robots again. So how hypocritical Westerners are. You don’t want the Chinese to have freedom of speech, you just want the Chinese to say what you like to hear.

[@MartinsGraveyard]

Every time I look at you, I see myself from a parallel universe. Keep up the fascinating content!

[@johndawson6057]

Mf what😂😂😂

[@wiphosphophyllite]

I always love the propaganda battles between the Yankees and Tankies in every single China video.

[@poliparadigm]

So do I

[@BongoBaggins]

You simply have to mention the 1988 Tianenmen Square massacre and it gets blocked in China anyway.

[@chuckd9007]

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.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Ah yes, the tianamen square tea party and friendly yet frank exchange of views

[@serebii666]

@@BongoBaggins You're a year off

[@simonoakley5102]

So in 60 years china has gone from poverty . To world leaders in mamy things they are way ahead of the rest . So yea it deffo worked

[@satoshionamoto]

I simply don't understand so much distrust. Why it's so difficult to understand that they got enough technology to make it? They have loads of sponge cities, so they can deal with floods. And also they are retrieving the deserts into forests again to make more rain... ❤

[@juslitor]

If you disregard the countless millions of victims to the communist ideals, sure, it worked.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:55 - Chapter 1 - Industrial advance at all costs 5:25 - Chapter 2 - A cold war (with nature) 8:20 - Chapter 3 - The south nord water transfer project 10:55 - Chapter 4 - Problems 15:10 - Chapter 5 - A red flag project

[@meganamehere]

Dude. Your new look is great

[@Bob1934-l6d]

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".

[@TheDanEdwards]

You can't excuse agriculture by pointing out that some of the chemicals are derived from the mountains.

[@leeo268]

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.

[@notusneo]

Eh its not like they are gonna care about the environment

[@cleve21ful]

They probably can't access it due to national security reasons claimed by US gov't.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@TheDanEdwards He's not saying there are no problems with agricultural pollution, he's saying that in this case the cause was entirely different.

[@goosejuice27]

how do you pump out so many good videos so often??

[@Steamrunner]

He's just a presenter with a small army of writers/researchers in the background doing the hard work.

[@timstadlmueller58]

Simon works with a great team of writers and editors!

[@goosejuice27]

@@Steamrunner yeah XD i saw at the end of the video that he has a whole team, still impressive though

[@brentnichols3071]

A crack team of writers for sure.

[@michaelgoh9768]

There's nothing that China can't do. It can construct roads and railways through mountains and under the sea . Nothing is impossible for China.