China's $50 Billion Sichuan-Tibet Railway: One of the World's Biggest Projects - TLDR News

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China is currently in the process of building the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, a $50 billion rail project connecting Tibet to the rest of China. This project is far from easy so in this video we explain why China's even doing this and what they hope to achieve by connecting rural China.
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[@lukemars7726]

I WANT YOU TO MAKE THAT VIDEO JUST SO JACK HAS A MELTDOWN TRYING TO PRONOUNCE THINGS CORRECTLY.

[@anffyddiaeth]

He tries?

[@lukemars7726]

@@anffyddiaeth good question?? 😂😂

[@Corwin256]

@@lukemars7726 my head canon is that he's busy enough producing content that he's applied the "TLDR" branding to his efforts, or lack thereof, to be enough of a linguist to even bother with foreign pronunciations. I guess I'll feel a bit bad if his genuine efforts have been such that I assumed he'd made a stoic, logical, decision not to put any effort in at all. To be fair though, I come here for news, not linguistics, so he'd be right to focus his efforts in that way. If I want to study language and perfect pronunciation I'll check out LangFocus or Metatron or something.

[@lukemars7726]

@@Corwin256 oh you are absolutely right!! I didn't mean to insult him or anything i was just having a bit of cheeky fun. This was the same comment he wrote at the end so my comment is meant as a joke.

[@Corwin256]

@@lukemars7726 oh man, I was so beyond tired when I wrote that comment late last night. Yeah, you were clearly joking. There are often comments by others who seem pretty bent out of shape, and I was probably responding to them in my mind whilst typing the reply to your comment. And yeah, I always pause the video to see the comments they suggest because they're hilarious.

[@MaheshAdhikari]

The difference is chinese investment to its infrastructures are not for profit from railway, or highway but to help its economy growth. West won't carry out any projects without profit and with only hope to help the people living there.

[@mdcmamahuhu]

wrong..it is for profit. all highways, railwaysm, airports are for profitt. China has the world's most toll road for example.

[@MaheshAdhikari]

@@mdcmamahuhu not for profit of railways but collective profit of country.

[@HFrevive]

@@mdcmamahuhu still losing money, but it helps poor provinces to get investments from rich ones. take US for example, the middle is so poor and the 13 original states + texas +cali are so rich. But without a plan from the central govt, there's no incentive to build up middle states. With these railways and roads, rich people from other provinces may see it as opportunities and start invest in poor inner cities.

[@alexturlais8558]

@@MaheshAdhikari so its still for profit, just the govefbmdnts profit.

[@frankfleming1103]

@@mdcmamahuhu East Yes, Middle and West NO, because they cann't refound the investment during life cycle

[@urbielatenightgamingadvent567]

50% of this video is on the politics behind the project. What about the building process of the rail? How does it climb so high? What power does it use?

[@khant4205]

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[@khant4205]

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[@urbielatenightgamingadvent567]

@@khant4205 thx

[@urbielatenightgamingadvent567]

@@khant4205 thx

[@gamers-xh3uc]

@@khant4205 mg that's so helpful

[@jbniks]

China doing civilazation@ USA doing call of duty@ Love from india 😍😍😍🇨🇳🇮🇳 😍😍😍

[@mirapokharelsapkota6078]

Very positive 🙏🇮🇳🇨🇳🇳🇵

[@Tod_x]

USA doing call of duty is true fact

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

They are also building for Jack to do a bunch of mispronunciations.

[@NaughtyPanda888]

拿破輪的人♯拿破崙

[@onghockchwee2342]

You Have Better Mandarin Pronunciation Than The Chinese Themselves ??

[@hanhan8293]

loser is the best word to describe Nepoleon in waterloo

[@IYgoob]

Hey TLDR crew. You might want to check out what's happening in Sweden right now. On monday the parliament votes on whether they have confidence in the prime minister or not. A snap election might follow if the majority wants the PM to resign.

[@hugomorgan1997]

this should be higher up, big news really. also think tldr should put a picture of winnie the pooh over xi jing ping just for the bants

[@Tommo_]

a train with an oxygen supply, damn that's mad

[@johnsoncao3114]

It’s a basic practice already applied in Guangzhou-Lasha Railway for years.

[@jackytang3683]

All by truck drivers

[@def8332]

3:33 📜 “< zero decrees centigrade”. We’ll I do declare: It’s cold.

[@margaretnicol3423]

So no-one's mentioning the astronauts who just went up to the new space station?

[@cageybee7221]

no. because they aren't american, so the media doesn't care if they made incredible advances for the human race.

[@savishksk]

No one really covers americans going to the iss too lol.

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@savishksk They covered that a few weeks ago. This is not the ISS. China is building its own space station. Note the word ''new''.

[@fahimrind9714]

what? It's literally on every news network. Do you just go to every channel that doesn't mention it and scream "WeStErn MedIA lIeS!!!" you wumaos are really quite shit at your jobs.

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@fahimrind9714 What is? Aww! You been listening to Fiddy?

[@seowlingwee4693]

I am looking forward to traveling on the train from Chengdu to Ihasa one day

[@Jeff-sm8of]

today's china has progressed tremendously. tibet should leverage on this.

[@tat3179]

Tibet just inaugurated their first HSR line. That is Tibet, 3000 meters up in the Himalayas where the air is thin and breathing is hard. I find it rather ironic that the so called oppressed Tibetans now has access to rail transport faster than some lines in the UK.

[@C17NRYL3D]

@@tat3179 If a foreign people took over your land I'm sure you would feel very differently.

[@tat3179]

@@C17NRYL3D Lol. Sorry mate. Tibet is a province of China and China consists Tibet. That is a fact. Keep being butthurt. Keep whining in western media and social media. Changes nothing in reality.

[@Gardstyle35]

@@tat3179 they are opressed, they arent free. Just like chinese arent free. The CCP is one of the big scourges of mankind.

[@tat3179]

@@Gardstyle35 Lol. Western "Freedom". You are delusional mate. And the CCP is such a big scourges of mankind that 800 million people are lifted from extreme poverty that exists like a plague in your "free" societies.

[@calvinhoward3808]

That's some good state planning.

[@irmtouch]

If there is peace between China and India, this railway will extend to India

[@WanderTheNomad]

That's a big if

[@alanfriesen9837]

I'm hoping very much that it will at least extend to Nepal. Rail access to Kathmandu would have been very helpful in the last COVID surge in Nepal.

[@chou3595]

hell no

[@leungpaul9401]

@@alanfriesen9837 it does extend into Nepal, that why india isnt happy because india used to control Nepal by controlling daily supply like patrol etc. Currently tunnel is beening dig under Himalayas. I think there is YT about it.

[@alanfriesen9837]

@@leungpaul9401 I'm glad to hear that if that is indeed the case. But this is the first I've heard of it.

[@eatchocolate9713]

Never heard about these dams in China so a video where you explain them would be good

[@snare5903]

They don't cover geopolitics

[@dr.winner2516]

Maybe you missed the announcements because you were eating chocolates

[@hcjet]

because China done NOT have any plan to build those dams he mentioned! Chinese gov publishes 5 years plan in advance and shares long term development plan regularly, such dams never listed in official information, just exist in imagination of some India/Western medias

[@leicestersquarebob840]

Your Chinese viewers' internet would be routed through a VPN so you would never know

[@petermanuel5043]

对呀!

[@Meteorknite]

Chinese people can survive outside china. They arent fish that will die as result of being out of mainland. Alot of HK are mainlanders too

[@leicestersquarebob840]

@@petermanuel5043 牛皮

[@muagsic]

看了好久了

[@ankitsen1998]

Your point true lmao. They can't take their criticism thats why stopped KZbin. Poor chaps doesn't know the taste of democracy.

[@alistairzhao7188]

Pretty sure this is still going to finish way faster than HS2. Despite all the obstacles🙄

[@qjtvaddict]

Anglophone countries are inferior fam

[@zetajolyne3689]

It is equivalent to drilling through mountains of thousands kilometers, and once leave the mountain, you must immediately build a bridge until we enter the plateau. There is almost no flat ground that can be directly laid the railway.

[@cnvramamoorthy8358]

Great . India too should built railroad to China border & connect both China & india railway lines for public use . Friendship & trade will develop between two great ancient Asian friendly countries-india & China .

[@lionheart3025]

We quite agree with you. We should develop our economy together and not be provoked to war by European and American countries.

[@pauliuspuzanovas9824]

26 viewers from Lithuania? Cool, I'm one of them :D

[@socialistsolidarity]

07:01 "Arunachal Chadesh" when it says Arunachal Pradesh on the map. 😂😂😂

[@eccentricthought4511]

The chadest region after chad

[@WanderTheNomad]

@Sam what does chadesh mean?

[@mr.commenter7953]

@@WanderTheNomad doesn't mean shit

[@socialistsolidarity]

@@eccentricthought4511 🤣

[@socialistsolidarity]

@@mr.commenter7953 I bet Jack was eating cheddar cheese whilst making this video.

[@dxj8348]

when you realize such a railway which can benefit so much in region only costs 16 F-35s /Or less than the money US spends in Afghanistan annually.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

Tbf labor costs in China are lower. But yeah, US could have accomplished so much more without getting too involved in other countries.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 lol for usa

[@ricardosmythe2548]

Makes HS2 look very expensive doesn't it 🤣

[@qjtvaddict]

Everything anglos do is expensive

[@pauljones-tj5vs]

Brilliant video. Very insightful. Great work.

[@pierregabory8772]

7:40 that animation… Has TLDR been running on Apple Keynote this whole time?!

[@user-zj8cf3fq8e]

Just to want to let you know that those three reasons are the same for all nations not just China. The United States has all this, but they have been doing this for the last 70 yrs with their infrastructure and highways from their East Coast to the West Coast. As matter of fact they started the continental railroad in 1960s linking their East Coast with their West coast for exactly the same three reasons you mentioned. So, no nothing new here. Except, China has the money to be able to do it now.

[@qjtvaddict]

Yeah no excuses USA has the $$$ but no priorities they will not maintain their infrastructure

[@seanlee3863]

Us has the money and had plenty of time, they either just don't have the competence or they just have too much political infighting to get it done nor both.

[@wanderingthewastes6159]

Sean Lee they have already done it? Probably before you were even born?

[@seanlee3863]

@@wanderingthewastes6159 their first bullet train? The one that's 6 billion in the hole and still have nothing to show for?

[@wanderingthewastes6159]

Sean Lee the interstate highway, the biggest megaproject in history.

[@vetic5011]

Interesting

[@peksn]

bruh

[@firstnamelastname7941]

Yes

[@fengqiu9634]

You had me shocked that the cost per km is 1/8 of HS2, also assuming it likely will complete before HS2.... god that is where our tax money goes.... I am just shocked of how can this be possible? 8 times ??

[@mylife70777]

Man the engineering as a engineer need to appreciate this investment and tech

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

Nobody is going to war, don't be freakin silly sunny. China will have to develop the region to get a better grip on things - that's all.

[@Amidat]

@rum distillery Tibetans and Uyghurs have never had a higher population... Say things that make sense.

[@wm7531]

@rum distillery In 1950 there were

[@wm7531]

@Top Burner Hi bot, if you compare the population growth rate, Kazakstan grows from 6M in 1950 to 18M in 2020. Uzbekstan grows from 6m in 1950 to 30M in 2020. Gyrgyzstan grows from 1.5m to 6.5m. You gonna say all these Turk countries genocide Turks????

[@wm7531]

@Top Burner these years Dhalamshara has lost half Tibetans, that means India government commits genocide to Dhalamshara Tibetans.

[@royalmontpark]

@Top Burner what a tool. Can’t convince a tool for sure. Now go play somewhere else

[@shakesfrederick7805]

James comes highly recommended, best TA guy by far I’ve worked with during the fall

[@JerryMing]

Hi Jack, your loyal Chinese viewer here!

[@nerdguy9699]

This would have been a good topic for a partnership video with B1M.

[@WanderTheNomad]

Especially since they're both British and both maintain a degree of professional

[@nehcooahnait7827]

Nah… B1M is very depoliticized and avoids talking about the political/public issues that come along with the construction. This channel tends to over-politicize everything and a bit warmongering even, almost like he wishes something bad/confrontational to happen to prove his views. After all, it is a very political channel. Things wouldn’t be ‘fun’ to watch without a bit ‘drama’, right? 😬

[@abood.7795]

I like the counteues' design especially those shoes lol

[@AdamFitzJKD]

Dalai Lama had Tibet as a feudal serfdom. To return to that would be a disaster

[@thomasraven2024]

For who?

[@KhaalixD]

Great video!

[@BeirutBallin]

Meanwhile the U.S. can’t even build a high speed rail-line from San Francisco to Los Angeles

[@pissyourselfandshitncoom2172]

@DEx Stev _""I'd rather live in a vastly inferior system, literal decades behind Asia, because I want freedom and anarchy""_ 🤪🥴🤪🥴

[@mikebaker2436]

Can't? or Won't.

[@classicmusicforall2015]

Not only this railway, there are actually three more High Speed Railway lines in the pipeline: - 1. 1000Km Kunming to Lhasa 2. 2000 Km Xinjiang to Lhasa (with link to Nepal) 3. 740km Xining to Lhasa Tibet will be one of the richest province in China in the near future, just imagine the 1.4b giant internal market and large number of tourists that will be coming to Tibet from as far as South East Asia (Thailand, Laos and etc)

[@Paranoid_Found]

Also last year’s border clash was along the northern rather than southern sections near Nyingchi.

[@Ghandara-hg1gc]

Compare this to the UK's HS2 high speed rail project, currently projected to cost $100 billion and rising and a completion date of 2040 if all goes to plan. By the way, the routes are only about 400 miles and are on mostly flat ground in a temperate climate.

[@mcr2356]

It's relative though. The labour is far more expensive and ultimately goes back into the ecconmy.

[@akouafray8616]

See why China can do what the west will take centuries to do.

[@adriantaylor4716]

Reason for HS2's costs are down to people able to object to the route through the courts and via inquiries to the route's that are planned so that costs could lawyer's fees, compensation claims as well as the construction costs and ordering the trains. In China once the government decides, it will be built whatever the locals think or want. Also the line in Tibet will be for 160Km/Hr trains as against a potential future max of 400Km/Hr for HS2 even if the 1st trains only run at a planned 360Km/Hr. One note on Tibet, their society has two groups of people, the monks and everyone else are essentially their slaves and have been for centuries. Interesting to read Peter Hopkirk's book "The Great Game" where an armed British expedition invaded Tibet to forestall a potential Russian backdoor invasion of India despite accepting that Tibet was in the sphere of China's influence. It's all part of history as there has been fighting between China and Tibet in the past and Tibet has at times ruled over parts of western China even if that does not excuse Moa's decision to invade in Tibet in 1951.

[@erozionzeall6371]

Lol. Britain is getting absolutely ripped off.

[@menedoffou6982]

@@mcr2356 The labor might explain the cost. What is the explanation for the duration?

[@koolaak2926]

Good topic and hand-sewn analysis, as always. Thanks for putting your proposal into practice and make this video about potential dispute of China with neighbors, especially around water supply issues

[@GyacoYu]

It's pronounced Nyeeng-chee not Nyaing-key my goodness. The English great vowel shift is affecting everybody making Mjaan-maar becoming "mai-yan-mar", Thai becoming "θay" and Vjeet-Naam as "vai-yet-naame"... Yet nobody pronounce Britain as Brighten, aisle as aysel, English as Englaish, India as In-dai-ya.

[@Meteorknite]

Yea I was suprised when island wasnt pronounced is land English is kinda weird lmao but theres case looking aesthetic too. Myanmar looks better than mjaa maar or Qin doesnt look as good as China

[@drewh3224]

Couldnt agree more 😂😂😂

[@GyacoYu]

​@@Meteorknite Yeah and what's worse, Old English is-land has now become ice-land in spelling of unknown reason. The spelling "ice" gives a hint that the word was once pronounced "ike" but that was never true. From thousand years ago that word was pronounced with an s-sound. In other words, _island_ and _Iceland_ should have been spelled _eyland_ and _Issland_ instead if everything represents etymology.

[@derigel1755]

This guy makes it sound like it's an inferior thing for a country to protect itself from being torn apart, lol.

[@efml1815]

It's even worse, he said he won't go into the history and then said Chinese military kill tibetans without any context whatsoever.

[@asherayeras9200]

The video about those dams would be nice to know ...and BTW, did I missed out the 8values Video or it isn't really out yet?

[@mengsiongkheng113]

Great video, thank you. As usual a piece of engineering feat and marvel. How many countries can do this or have the political will to do it? Who else can do this at this price and speed?

[@noneimportant5951]

I wish my country was able to build railways as fast as China 😔

[@charliecrome207]

I mean at least it's probably not a dictatorship 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@noneimportant5951]

@@charliecrome207 my country practically is (I’m not from the uk) and I’d rather have our gdp per capita lifted (like China was able to) than than worry about dictatorships

[@redfallout7650]

@@noneimportant5951 dictatorships are something that should always be worried about.

[@darrenbutler9819]

I mean, if they build it so quickly, probably means it won't be very stable, Chinese infrastructure has a lot of corruption leading to poor quality projects.

[@spqr950]

@@redfallout7650 You won't be really care about that if your father's generation was still in poverty. That's how we china works: we are not far away from the old starving days so we are more worrying about basic need such as enough food or warm clothes. We are not rich enough to fight for political rights.

[@ratnasinaga5287]

Oh no, this video can harm the heath of the anti Chína forces.

[@proximacentaur1654]

Please make a video on forecasts for water security in the region, including the impact of climate change on the glacial plateaus in Tibet, the impact of China's dam projects, and major flood predictions in the region too ( e.g: Bangladesh).

[@baruasafi5880]

Whilst America is spending money on war.

[@pierren___]

Im ashamed we have no initiative on those matters in Europe.

[@levelazn]

Europe is not great at nation building. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan

[@nakshatra1402]

From wherever you look, China has a huge advantage in almost every fight India was/is planning. Even if China gets pressured on one factor, it can simply overwhelm India on multiple other factors. The cumulative advantages has already resulted in a victory for China, with or without war

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

Ehh, I'd say it's more delicate than that. Both have enormous vulnerable land borders. India has a much more secure access to the world's oceans as they have limited beef with the US and NATO while China's ocean access is pretty much completely choked by unfriendly countries like Vietnam, Phillippines, Taiwan, Japan, USA. (Comparisons between the Indian and Chinese navies are almost meaningless since both lack the power projection capabilities to bring major combat force into other's backyard) Small countries on their border like Nepal, Bhutan are friendlier to India than China as well.

[@uniqueX219]

O man i just seen video on facebook about this but when i think to search this on youtube i got ur video right now which is uploaded 2 hours ago

[@arshad1647]

Being an indian i feel very jealous. In whole of india there is no single km of high speed railway but even with such mountainous terrain tibet has 1000s of km of hsr

[@Minimusi]

Make a Nigeria pin! I LOVE your content!

[@tat3179]

I find it funny that China, which is technically a developing country, having the capability to build a railway across one of the harshest terrains in earth and still makes it at least 3 times cheaper than the UK, a G7 nation, building its HSR on a relatively flat terrain. WTF UK

[@ZeroX-rv1jo]

well they dont care about human safety so that makes it way cheaper

[@tat3179]

@@ZeroX-rv1jo Is that sour grapes that I hear? Lol

[@shawnlu9637]

@@ZeroX-rv1jo Just admit it, UK sucks in technology and engineering.

[@melvinmathew4171]

@@ZeroX-rv1jo Are we literally gonna talk about human safety? Britain literally INVENTED the concentration camp

[@artorias3720]

@@ZeroX-rv1jo Funny excuse from a lazy boy

[@hamishbell6221]

A video on the dams would be great

[@danieln611]

EXCELLENT

[@zamraaj0652]

A very informative and well delivered.

[@nikobrown1990]

As someone who works on the project I can assure you that acquiring the land for the HS2 project (most of which is already owned by countless members of the public, in a democratic society) is far more difficult than building a long track across the wilderness in a country where all land is held Freehold by the state. Hence the disparity in cost.

[@josephharrison8354]

Also the fact that the labour force is better paid in the UK, and that despite covering mostly flat terrain, the first section of HS2 is still predominantly in tunnels.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

​@@josephharrison8354 China also get better pay. Every years

[@grumpyrabbit1934]

Chinese viewer here, we use VPN, so which country a mainland viewer located depending on what VPN they use

[@JackKinglsy]

I would like a video on those upcoming dams

[@tahu1349]

In UK we have bendy buses

[@thomasraven2024]

They were banned ages ago for fire concerns, I thought? I don't remember the last one I see! Maybe early 2000s?

[@badboje6040]

the tldr merch is sick boys, the little badges look great. Once the US magnet is back in stock it might be the first merch I ever buy!

[@dougmcleod3413]

me too ... I WANT YOU TO MAKE THAT VIDEO JUST SO JACK HAS A MELTDOWN TRYING TO PRONOUNCE THINGS CORRECTLY. but seriously i'd love to see it too

[@vinniechan]

If u have a project that is much larger in scale of course the per unit cost is going to even out and lowered

[@attackhelicopterisnotagend5193]

Think they have the sauce...?

[@Joso997]

Will the China badge have 9 dash lines 😅

[@cageybee7221]

*sigh* do any of the other badges have sea borders? no? then what do you think smart guy?

[@Alex-bf3re]

@@cageybee7221 Dude, do you not know what a joke is? If not you should look it up.

[@Doochos]

@@cageybee7221 humour /ˈhjuːmə/ noun 1. the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.

[@stuartjones1298]

Please do a video on the dams as mentioned

[@hotchi1566]

Well done, China.

[@studentvikas]

Yes, Do make a video on the dams in that area and how they will affect the future of people on the Indian side!

[@gingerli6987]

who cares! It is in China’s land! So China can not decide how to do infrastructure in China? Funny! Chinese government only need to consider how to help Chinese people, why China should consider India? If Indian are worried, they can build a railway from New Delhi to the border too if they can.

[@studentvikas]

@@gingerli6987 They are building infrastructure near India just to start war with India. There are no Chinese people living there. China wants to transport their troops to Indian border as soon as they can, that's the reason of building railway in such a remote area!

[@Zim___]

@@studentvikas once the railway completed, Han Chinese will migrate to Tibet like what has happened in Xinjiang region.

[@studentvikas]

@@Zim___ Yes, That's the tactic of gaining full control on Tibet and then they will start encroaching in Other county's territories!!

[@MaheshAdhikari]

India, yeah make video about how india ignored international rules and makes one sided dam in borders across Nepal because of which much more people are dying in Nepal during monsoon. Indian media barks about china building dam in it's own territory but never shows their aggression against small countries around. And if we speak about how india is misusing its power in the region they just blame we are lying or are being influenced by chinese. Fk no. We don't even understand chinese. We know hindi, we share languages like bhojpuri and maithili across both side of Nepal India. We share the traditions. We have religious beliefs of same. And we were friends from long past. But most Nepalese citizens nowadays hates India because what we face in daily life. Our politicians are always siding with india but indian media will say they sided with china coz we have many communist parties !!

[@sibeisun5272]

There was not a single mention of how this will economically benefit Lhasa. The video jumped straight into cost and politics while barely touching upon the key motivation - development. China's railways are a threat to the world, once again.

[@LucarioBoricua]

For once, commercial flights across the Tibetan Plateau are quite a difficult affair because the plateau itself and the surrounding mountains, especially the Himalayas to the south and the Tian-Shan to the west, are so high that airplanes have limited room to maneuver in case of technical failures. Improving land transport to this region would dramatically increase transportation options. At the same time, Tibet is one of the routes through which to reach Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan and Afghanistan, facilitating international trade with all 4.

[@mikicerise6250]

I'm affendered.

[@vilena5308]

Water supply issue sounds pretty interesting.

[@juanDE1703]

Nice.

[@suryagurung8787]

Bravo China. Respect to Chinese scientists, engineers, people and leaders.

[@Gardstyle35]

Bravo? That railway main function is to strengten china grap around tibet. U know, the nation they conquered and annexed. A nation that commits genocide...

[@adan2099]

Did you have learned history, Tibet is China in China, according to your logic of yours, more than 200 years ago, there is no big now, and the United States also broke more than 1 million square kilometers in Mexico, New Mexico,Texas is the territory of Mexico, Kansas, Texas.

[@Gardstyle35]

@@adan2099 the terretories conquered from mexico wanted to join the usa in the 1. place furthermore the indians got reservates and have freedom. the tibetians dont have freedom of any kind. They actively fight the identities of the minorities in china, they have no right to demonstrate, to talk freely, no access to free informations. the tibetians want freedom and independence, do the terrotories that belonged to mexica want to be a part of mexico again? u cant compare a one party system with a democracy.

[@XDunedainXOfXEreborX]

As a Tibetan, Jack's pronunciations of Nyingchi and Yarlung Tsangpo seriously cracked me up lol. Great video though, as always.

[@xingchenfan7923]

林芝不知道怎么翻译成那样，藏语直译？

[@TheEMDEVE]

Great video, I certainly wouldn't mind more information about the potential for future clashes!

[@rickandmorty7034]

Your video is full of errors, let me tell you some basic facts. The Dalai Lama was once the largest slave owner in Tibet. Before 1950, Tibet was a slave-slave society in which monks and nobles could abuse and kill ordinary Tibetans at will. Thangka, an exquisite Tibetan Buddhist painting, is painted on human skin, skin removed from slaves. The human skin drum, a Tibetan Buddhist ritual instrument, is made from the skin and skull of a child. You read that right, the skull of a slave child. Today, when you visit Lhasa, you can still see the human skin drum displayed in the Potala Palace, which is the true face of the Dalai Lama.

[@hriday1341]

I wonder what is the cost of freedom and democracy

[@perry6660]

it's definitely an efficient bureaucracy.

[@giansideros]

@@perry6660 it can't just be that, most democracies give all the power necessary to legislate to a winning party which in effect is like a dictatorship for a limited time period ie the next election. In the UK the Conservative Party can pass any legislation it wants right now and will do, it doesn't have to worry about the other parties in opposition, where's the bureaucracy here stopping us from leveraging our advanced development and capital investments from doing similar things on our own scale? If anything we should have more per capita economic power to do more impressive feats than China (relative to our population) yet we aren't.

[@cageybee7221]

@@perry6660 if by efficient you mean does everything in it's power to not do it;s job

[@cageybee7221]

@@giansideros China's massive feats of engineering are produced by three things, 1. desire to do so 2. most of the CCP have engineering degrees and are selected from many of the highest ranked students in china, so they are more inclined to see the benefits of great works of engineering. 3. economic growth, stability, and developement are extremely important to the chinese government as if they are not able to continually prove to the chinese people that what rights they sacrifice to the CCP are justified due to the prosperity brought to the country then they will be overthrown.

[@perry6660]

@@cageybee7221 Eh, I think the CCP does its job perfectly fine. From what I know, they have a 5 year plan, that most of the time completed just in time. Although, I have to agree with your last point, the current Chinese government is always under pressure by the international community, their “rebel province” Taiwan puts an extreme threat to the current government, Chinese Mainlanders can see how a democratic and “free” China can look like under the RoC. Since ancient times, the Chinese always have a culture to overthrow their ruling dynasty, if they deemed the ruling dynasty unfit to claim themselves as the Mandate of Heaven. I think the CCP won’t go anywhere soon since the majority of Chinese are shockingly nationalistic. Idk I’m not an expert..

[@tongchen1226]

No, the border skirmish last year was on the western section of the border in Ladakh, not on the eastern side in Arunachal Pradesh.

[@pogzie]

Where are the "Philip-pins"? lol

[@DJRAJEE]

Why does every video need to be longed out?

[@schmurble2254]

it’s a complex topic

[@peoplesplays2399]

To 9 minutes?

[@Doochos]

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[@Fire-ci4se]

You should make a video on China's High speed rail system. And how profitable it actually is , compared to other countries

[@vinniechan]

Is it?

[@Fire-ci4se]

@@vinniechan By seeing the trains alone , two-thirds of the route are not profitable . But , the societal benefits and costs are not accounted .

[@skiesboi]

Please do make the video on the dams issue

[@sirdeadlock]

This was a neato train facts video.

[@swagatmaharana3131]

Its more about controlling region and be able to send supplies through train when there is a border issue when there is conflict .50billion on railroads to remote Tibet .It's quite obvious

[@po2002tak]

you dont need train to send your supplies since there are airports in that area and that area is not that remote , Nyingchi is a freakin fully developed city

[@MayankJairaj]

@@po2002takyeah Nyingchi is an urban city but I think train is more for bulk supplies like ore. And for that weird undead fungus, who can forget that!

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

@@po2002tak Bruh, you do need trains. Airlifting supplies is an enormous, expensive effort. You just don't really need HIGH SPEED trains, as the main bottleneck is often the unloading from trains rather than travel time.

[@po2002tak]

@@MayankJairaj caterpillar fungus can be found in places 3,000 metres above sea level and Nyingchi is mainly below 3,000

[@scottkeyser2976]

I wanna invest how can I get to James Martian?

[@BoggleWogglez]

Damn that's a lot

[@bijayabaruwal4968]

It is coming to Kathmandu Nepal 🇳🇵❤️🇨🇳....

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Plus they need to continue these massive infrastructure projects to show economic growth.

[@bananaempijama]

Just to remind Tibet, China is closer than ever

[@captives6479]

No, just to remind you China is stronger than ever.

[@liuxiangxi]

I mean it’s normal if Tibet is in it

[@byron-ih2ge]

@@liuxiangxi you mean occupied by china ya of course

[@Doochos]

@@liuxiangxi Illegally occupied, yes

[@liuxiangxi]

@@byron-ih2ge Tibet has been part of China since 1200

[@mattmanson1077]

@Amelia Isabella Yeah..

[@hawkkim1974]

Tibetan plateau is a bolt full of natural resources. The plateau has been intact for we don't even know how long.

[@MarvinTurner]

I would be interested in that China/India dispute video, as well as a China/Tibet history video

[@marsaeolus9248]

Why do you focus on politics, it is unbearable ! Tell us how they will manage to build these mega infrastructure, why did they choose this path etc. Anti china propaganda is so annoying and stupid

[@shahzamanganai427]

I want you to make that video just so Jack has a meltdown trying to pronounce thing correctly!

[@kiamdahlstrand8022]

You have to talk about what’s going on in Sweden rn

[@zigengzhu8499]

As a Chinese, I'm glad to see such an objective narrative coming from a western media outlet. Keep up the good work!

[@ananddwivedi1599]

The whole world is talking about your country my dear... and it's still a understatement.

[@fanyang8533]

@@ananddwivedi1599 high IQ people don't care western media about China，bro😒

[@ananddwivedi1599]

@@fanyang8533 LoL 😂, I noticed what you are implying here

[@byron-ih2ge]

As the years pass by the chances of tibet becoming tibet again r just diminishing

[@daysofthunder6110]

They were long gone lol. Anyone who thought otherwise was deluded

[@siarnaqfrost4968]

@@daysofthunder6110 It's like announcing the independence of native Americans in USA. lol.

[@Doochos]

@@siarnaqfrost4968 Whatsboutism

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@Doochos 'Whataboutism' is just a term invented to deflect accusations of hypocrisy. And it isn't even being properly used in your case.

[@byron-ih2ge]

@@daysofthunder6110 na only a fool would think so

[@killickr]

A very well researched and presented piece of work.

[@sarogers6294]

No one else notice the "zero decrees" spelling mistake?

[@laithmeanslion]

how about making a Tibetan flag pin badge and donating some of the money to Tibetan groups