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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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? 😂🔥🤌

[@Kolendamp]

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

[@hurrikkkanes2533]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@EA-dweller]

@@emjay6828 it’s a government project while most of American and western projects are given to J-wish companies. You know black rock, vanguard,..

[@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.

[@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?

[@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.

[@dinmavric5504]

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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@sbmk8680]

whenever China builds something the west loses their mind🤣🤣

[@tigading2177]

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

[@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.

[@randy7928]

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

[@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

[@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？

[@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)

[@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.

[@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?.

[@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.

[@MT.2012]

Just skip to 8:15

[@ewokFTW]

I appreciate China having the balls to give humanity precedent for this kind of stuff.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.....

[@bro_dBow]

Great presentation, need public awareness of such geopolitical sensitive issues.

[@extraterrestrial7424]

No mountain, no desert, no lake, no force in the universe can stop human engineers. Except one. Money.

[@佯谬]

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。

[@yous2244]

A drought? A moon sized meteor? The sun swollowing the earth? The sea flooding all land?

[@kathrynhanley5249]

Simon, I have to say it has been a pleasure watching you grow. Your videos and your mindset has grown so much in their depth. To watch you try and be open to what you are reading, even through trying find the jokes, has been a pleasure. Don’t think sorely of yourself as a content creator. You have serious value and I think yo in should be able to speak to the elders of your family with pride. You are doing your part. Here is to you.

[@user-vv7ir1pl4j]

basically a modern aquaduct.

[@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

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

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

[@erics6571]

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 😊

[@BigHeadAvenger]

Because diverting major rivers NEVER goes disastrously wrong. 😑

[@eadweard.]

Does it go wrong often?

[@anthonyfrench3169]

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

[@samiraperi467]

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

[@stephenlane9168]

Fantastic video. Very watchable and enjoyable and informative too 🙏👌👏

[@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

[@PurrfectsPearl]

I love that speak quickly. To the point

[@spectrotekservices]

Thanks for another great video!

[@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...

[@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.

[@topcatandgang]

is that going to be used to carry artifiicial water?

[@ageofatheism6638]

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

[@mrzoinky5999]

LOL

[@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.

[@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 😯🤯

[@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.

[@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 🤷‍♂️

[@meganamehere]

Dude. Your new look is great

[@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

[@premeditatedplan5417]

You so wanted to end that with Red Flag By Name, Red Flag By Nature drop didn't ya!

[@hermanhsu5994]

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

[@dinmavric5504]

The West is what allowed China to grow lol

[@dondewitt8880]

Good information, but definitely interesting to have a British accent explaining a Chinese, and then Indian, project.

[@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.

[@cerellitv2978]

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

[@keiming2277]

If your workers can take the wage as cheap as Chinese workers, or you're willing to corporate with the authority, like give up home/land, no questions asked. You can have these mega construction in your country

[@ThePoopsmith-12345]

They’ll be crapily constructed.

[@davidt02]

So many shades to throw for an engineering channel.

[@MartinsGraveyard]

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

[@johndawson6057]

Mf what😂😂😂

[@thekito4623]

this wasa great and interresting video. i appreciate finding new channels that i can enjoy. if i can give some feedback tho: it started a bit apruptly ... you could say hello first before going into it ^^ and also you can relax and talk a bit slower ... i feel like i drank too much coffee with the speed youre talking at ^^

[@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.

[@MyBinaryLife]

Youd think theyd be more concerned over the fact their 3 gorges dam is already failing within a decade of construction

[@pikachus5m166]

Just like all those doctored photos of dam bending. Western propaganda does wonders.

[@legalizefreedom451]

Can't wait to hear how they just painted it blue.

[@potatonoodlebear8035]

pretty sure river should not be blue. hmmmm

[@legalizefreedom451]

@potatonoodlebear8035 🙄

[@TheKyleLazarus]

Cool. Thanks for trimming the beard ✊️

[@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.

[@edwardgilmour9013]

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 KZbin drops in. I can barely hear what you're saying with the Volume on Maximum.

[@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?

[@coweatsman]

"The great leap forward" happened about 3 decades too soon. It didn't happen until Deng came to power in the 1980s.

[@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?

[@ALWH1314]

This is probably the most important project china has ever done. Water supply has been a challenge in northern china for over thousand years. With this project Beijing is now receiving southern water to sustain the huge population.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

I'm starting to think there's a reason these things costs hundreds of billions outside of China...

[@duanenavarre7234]

well with governments there is always some degree of money laundering, its just much worse in US and EU.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@duanenavarre7234 Except it's starting to look like it's because we do it properly. Even their best stuff is a bit Tofu Dreggy. The fact that they build nuclear plants _completely unsupervised_ is a genuine concern.

[@yuning8045]

@@MostlyPennyCat Nuclear powerplants aren't even that dangerous, it's just the western public that's so scared of them hence why the elected leaders abuse it to get votes. If you don't believe me go ask any engineer or scientist and they will say the same thing.

[@jilbertb]

Is the rebar used the rubbery stuff they use in those high rise buildings?

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@jilbertb Does it even go all the way through? 😂 Maybe they just stick a few inches to look like there's rebar!!

[@ranjusranjus143]

One complete it will be a wonder of the world....and people will marvel at the ingenuity of the designers. Just look at the massive electric dam that was being trashed by western media

[@christopherhammond9467]

Yeah when the dam collapses due to shitty construction a lot of people are going to die

[@ranjusranjus143]

@christopherhammond9467 name one recent dam collapse in China

[@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

[@dinmavric5504]

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

[@nahoj.2569]

@@dinmavric5504 That was pretty much the truth for a thousands years, no?

[@markgarin6355]

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.

[@wslrichards]

​@@duyataksis5210 commies aren't people.

[@N0d4chi]

@@duyataksis5210 Hes referring to the extermiantion of sparrows. And yes that caused a famine in china around 1959.

[@freeworld88888]

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.

[@chloeleo]

@@duyataksis5210 I’d say your a Chinese bot but a Chinese bot would probably make their point better than you did

[@markgarin6355]

@duyataksis5210 how is this a 'highlighted' comment. Check your history.....dummy

[@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.

[@-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.

[@kkadera]

Thankfully their construction quality guarantees this will be safe and effective.

[@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.

[@SheepFreak2]

0:55 State driven reconfiguration. That sounds nice

[@colinbarnard6512]

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.

[@hexusmexus6971]

Ha says youtuber number one

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Thank you for the video.

[@HandyMan657]

I wonder if this project will end up like so many of their others, incomplete. So much material was wasted on all those ghost cities.

[@DK-gj5sp]

You know nothing about China. Some projects were unnecessary that got suspended or abandoned but not many. You are a clown and watching too much western propaganda

[@andrean2247]

Rust belt you mean?

[@KingsleyOkike-w6p]

Do you like deforestation or what

[@andyyang2482]

what % of water source for mekong river is from rainfall ?

[@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.

[@mitchellchristianson8120]

Yes I would say beautiful! Job well done

[@Hystericall]

US used to do these, like diverting the Colorado to feed California. It is a necessity for modern civilization, cost or no cost The Colorado no longer reach the Sea, on the other hand, millions can live in S. California.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"like diverting the Colorado to feed California."

[@alexwilliamrussell]

People can live in areas with existing water no need for big canals by govt ... Water wholesale is $.0001 a pound, even in California, it's not really scarce unless one demands such cheap prices and demands govt arrange for you to live in desert yet you still get this mega cheap water .. .. in MN do they demand govt give them warm breezes in February?

[@dinmavric5504]

Well I guess, except you forgot to mention that much of water that had been granted to these farmers has been misused and wasted. Building a city in a desert, is a stupid idea, but even more stupid is giving farmers free reign on water.

[@scottluvisi9941]

Communism-When it comes to megaprojects, their is no limit to human sacrifices

[@herknorth8691]

Look on the bright side: at least China signed a piece of paper that says they might reduce pollution one day.

[@kamsunleong6648]

They also walk their talk. They install and generate more green energy than the rest of the world combined . From solar, wind, hydro and nuclear. As the rest of the world expects China to make most of the stuff for them, it will take time to gradually replace coal power with renewables. As we speak, they have 45 nuclear power plants under construction. The most number in the world, with India in second place with 7. The next target date for neutral carbon emissions is 2060.

[@DK-gj5sp]

You are. A loser and clown

[@adriankhoo6358]

@@kamsunleong6648 they will reach carbon neutral before their target date unlike most western countries.

[@dinmavric5504]

@@kamsunleong6648 Yeah, that's why they paint hills and plains green... the corruption is great in China.

[@sanitygone-l9y]

In their defense, they are making much more progress towards that goal than any Western nation currently.

[@isleofyew1]

The great leap forward was just as difficult, hard and often deadly as the British industrial revolution except the Brits had the slight cushioning from their empire there to exploit.

[@eadweard.]

Where did you learn to say this sort of thing?

[@nahoj.2569]

@@eadweard. the british murdered millions of indians in the 20th century and Churchill thought them lower than animals.

[@pikachus5m166]

​@@eadweard.Stands to reason, Britain had the biggest resource base from an Empire where the sun doesn't set.

[@Enjoymentboy]

Oh yeah...there's NO WAY this will result in any environmental damage or catastrophe.

[@jilbertb]

And Chyna MAY actually get some water fit for human consumption out of it?! 🎉

[@kamsunleong6648]

Water is life. Their arid north desperately needs the excess water ftom thd south. There's no other viable option other than this water transfer. Enviromental catastrophe or damage applies only if the project is Chinese. If non Chinese, then there will be no issue. In fact if this is a western or western backed project, it would be hailed as an engineering marvel to benefit humanity. Am I right?

[@leandersearle5094]

@@kamsunleong6648 You're not paying attention to the West, all growth is evil. Human life is evil. Happiness is evil. This would be a rare case of moral consistency from our leadership to condemn something occurring in China.

[@myintmaunmaun]

China's Dujiangyan, built 2300 years ago, and Grand Canal, built 1500 years ago, are still in use today. What's your point again?

[@Enjoymentboy]

@@myintmaunmaun They weren't built by the corruption and arrogance of the ccp. try again little one.

[@classycasual3910]

Great background music on this one!

[@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... ❤

[@richardcory5024]

I don't think that environmental concerns enter the equation at any stage in China.

[@jonnywatts2970]

Would they report any environment catastrophe anyway?

[@acash93]

Never

[@elnorton7113]

none of your business

[@douglasclerk2764]

Perhaps as a great success.

[@adeleyesogoolumide9065]

Why should China report to you?. Do you pay tax to the govt ?

[@jonnywatts2970]

@adeleyesogoolumide9065 I'm referring to how they lie about everything. Their economic numbers, the happiness of their people, and the condition of their infrastructure to name a few. They don't need to report anything to me. I know the truth already.

[@00110000]

Can always leave it to China to put the 'mental' in monumental

[@Jaredbuncher]

I wonder when he’s going to make a video saying the Chinese language is too hard to speak and it will choke the future generations with words.

[@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.