Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels

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[@killianholm2283]

Frist

[@killianholm2283]

So

[@killianholm2283]

What to do

[@killianholm2283]

Try stealing information from companies that move to your studio for ideas . Definitely not copying a certain Asian country.

[@killianholm2283]

Norway is better than Sweden by the way nit real related but still.

[@yikes8932]

Just popping in to say *secret tunnel, secret tunnel, through the mountain, secret* secret *secret tunnel!*

[@aotoda486]

Twoooo loverss, forbidden from one anotherr, waarr diviides, their peopllee, and a mountain divides them apaart. Buiilt a path to, be toogetherr, and I forget the next few lines, but then it goes... *_SE-_*

[@generichomosapien4666]

一努今也不一吧，因为这原就这而已不所人。不要自有问可看我的人你喜次 It translates to nonsense btw

[@dantelove4606]

Secret secret secret secret secret TUUUNNNELLL YEAH

[@SOCOM955555]

I went into the comments looking for this exact thing. You did not disappoint, thank you

[@youraftermyrobotbee]

This video would not be complete without this comment

[@benardo01]

*"We, a moderately sized KZbin channel, are not a secret Chinese military agency"* that's what a secret Chinese government agency would want you to believe

[@user-gu8qi4me8x]

Yes but actually no

[@danp.4824]

Next Wendover Productions video: The Logistics of Secret Tunnels in China

[@zsdfasdfas]

The INSANE Logistics of Secret Tunnels in China - don't forget the most important part!

[@Matt02341]

Can they hide an airplane in it? See Eisenhower rated highway

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@zsdfasdfas I mean, id love it if he cud forget the ableist word there and just title it without that word... Cud even call it ridiculous or absurd or bizarre or extreme instd.

[@fiery1377]

@@SylviaRustyFae no

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@fiery1377 Look back on this comment ten yrs from now and keep doin that til you finally change

[@coreytaylor447]

"why would you be enemies with something thats not sentient" me, whos been pissed off at my cactus plant for years because that one time it fell off the table onto my leg: observe

[@alicehargest]

This resonates with me because my cactus is also a prick

[@theviniso]

Aren't plants sentient though?

[@coreytaylor447]

@@theviniso no, they dont have the neuron networks to feel or experience emotions or thought, though they do feel "pain" in the sense that they know when they are damaged

[@speedy01247]

@@theviniso if plants are sentient, we are monsters. (I mean we probably still are but that is beside the point)

[@theviniso]

@@speedy01247 Well, we gotta eat something.

[@Kamitsurugi]

Just in case, we never know what could happen...

[@shale6422]

I literally just came here from your community post, the two sides of my yt recommendations have finally collided.

[@hetakusoda2977]

You??

[@warren5037]

Oh hey, fancy seeing you here

[@user-re9gj2zd5e]

In case of what?

[@agent7861]

What? Didn’t realize you were in this corner of the internet

[@therealdave06]

"Why China dug tunnels a total distance three times longer than Vanessa Carlton would walk to see you" is a god-tier joke

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

To convert that to different units, it's three times longer than the Proclaimers would walk to wind up at your door.

[@JamieBainbridge]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Yes! 👍

[@WitJakkels]

i literally paused the video and scrolled through the comments just to see who else shared this exact sentiment

[@LRM12o8]

Should've been the Proclaimers instead, imo.

[@yesidohaveplacestobe]

Why be regular boring when you can be boring *with slides* 😂

[@deviationblue]

Is Sam implying that a video about tunnels would be a boring video?

[@therealdave06]

@@deviationblue no, but tunnels have to be bored

[@deviationblue]

@@therealdave06 they must be bored it's not much fun staying secret.

[@craigcarter400]

It was a play on words. Tunnels are made by being bored out.

[@deviationblue]

@@craigcarter400 you don't say

[@fyang1429]

Fun fact, Beijing's first subway line was one of the first of such tunnels.

[@abi1521]

wow mind blowing, surely they save much money from that

[@alexangelis9502]

SECRET TUNNEL, secret tunnel, through the mountains, secret tunnel...

[@aducharme01]

That Cheney joke is I think the first time I've ever had a burn make me feel nostalgic. That was not something I expected to happen to me today

[@AndrewPonti]

Legit same.... I lol-ed and then thought... wow, i'm getting old.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

im lazy can u explain

[@aducharme01]

@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Former US Vice President Dick Cheney once accidentally shot someone he was out hunting with. Was a big source of jokes for a good long while, but has rather fallen off the radar given that it happened once well over a decade ago. I'm old enough to remember when the joke was fresh, hence the nostalgic reaction

[@Nerevarine420]

@@aducharme01 the dude apologized to cheney too and said it was his fault If that doesn't scream true power idk what does.

[@thekwoka4707]

Some of these jokes have me convinced you're trying to make sure you get arrested if you ever visit Hong Kong.

[@Bacopa68]

He should really have used the brick distraction that keeps him from being arrested in the US.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@Bacopa68 Yeah, it clearly works, seeing as he hasn't been arrested so far.

[@99999bomb]

I’m from Hong Kong, I’m probably getting arrested soon (free hk)

[@Wafermarkhk]

Yes Ah I know I live in HK

[@internetexplorer7143]

I’m watching this video in Hong Kong so wish me luck

[@jasonli3341]

The name for the great wall in chinese is 长城, which means long city. So the underground great wall (地下长城）means something closer to "the underground city"

[@HenryLoenwind]

But does the meaning of the words really influence what people picture in their minds when they think about the Great Wall? The German word for "peace" literally means "walled", and the word for "cemetery" means "walled courtyard", yet nobody would think about those meanings when using the words. (Yes, it is somewhat hilarious that "building a wall" and "making peace" are the same verb, just with a different directional prefix in German, considering Germany's history with walling off half the country.)

[@David-vx4bj]

This feels like a misreading: 城 in 长城 historically means the earth walls surrounding cities and states, more in line with the meaning of 城墙 (defensive wall, city wall). The currently more used meaning of “city” (in line with the meaning of 城市, city) derived from that as a later development in the language. The name 长城 first appeared in Records of the Great Historian, written when the character still commonly referred to walls. As such, both as an etymological matter and as a matter of current usage, 城 in 长城 is always understood as meaning “wall” instead of “city”.

[@m_srnw]

3:55 that joke just summed up HAI's humor in a nutshell.

[@TylerFurrison]

Imagine sitting in your Shenzhen home and suddenly a government official pops up though your floor

[@leonleon2021]

why through floor? they can always use door, rite?

[@TylerFurrison]

@@leonleon2021 that's not the joke though, is it?

[@user-re9gj2zd5e]

@@TylerFurrison your joke wasn’t very funny unfortunately

[@TylerFurrison]

@@user-re9gj2zd5e So far 25 people disagree

[@oliversmalley7771]

That would be... awkward

[@powerpappa5871]

Mhm Two lovers, forbidden from one another A war divides their people And a mountain divides them apart Built a path to be together ...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes... Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel! Through the mountain! Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel! Hey, I just remembered the next couple of lines Two lovers, destined for one another But the war still divides their people So they built a tunnel through the mountain And now they can be together forever Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel! Through the mountain! Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel! Tunnel, secret, tunnel, secret, tunnel, tunnel Secret, secret tunnel, secret tunnel Tunnel, secret, secret tunnel Secret, secret tunnel It's a secret, secret tunnel Yeah

[@christopherconti3228]

Inviting the OIC, EU, and the US to visit those vocational centers is a weird way to try to keep them secret

[@aprilknight6971]

Thank you. Makes propaganda cheap when so many in the west like to repeat it for free

[@pilotlewis1578]

It’s more interesting that someone counted

[@adrewster]

2:49 "Artillerary"

[@Ektalon]

I was an artilleraritist back in the day . . .

[@chrish.942]

Why is the howitzer battery firing so slowly? Because the loaders got artillarthritis

[@pranaveshjelly7351]

For the people who don't understand some of the comments: Soka is a fictional character from the series Avatar: The last airbender And the lyrics are from a episode called secret tunnel.

[@theviniso]

Thank you, I was trying to figure out where I've heard that before

[@lizardlegend42]

*Sokka

[@ethanhayes7038]

The episode is called The Cave of Two Lovers.

[@azore591]

Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.

[@amylau4086]

1:08 'Key map squiggles' That's basically what borders of countries look like on a map. 😂

[@Illusion97_]

I watched the video: it’s to transport bricks to HAI unfinished airport

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

They must have used bricks to build it, right? So really, this _is_ a video about bricks.

[@francisluglio6611]

What's with the trend of people forgetting the -'s- lately?

[@David.Marquez]

No better way to start the morning than with a new HAI vid about China :)

[@Empwuznal]

Or in my case, finish the day ;)

[@gamechip06]

Guys I know where the tunnels are located! They're in [REDACTED] and goes through [REMOVED] no need to thank me

[@bransen1235]

It seems this video is unavailable in your country.

[@lordpointyvader8872]

Edit: Guess you won't know what I said

[@keeperofeurobeat8421]

Through the mountains!

[@gustavgans3760]

@@keeperofeurobeat8421 Secret, Secret, secret Tunnel.

[@Harshhaze]

@@gustavgans3760 yeah

[@nirajankhadka0123]

was waiting for this reference from Sam!

[@majorfallacy5926]

And then they diiieeeeed

[@nirajankhadka0123]

Sam usually references Avatar: The Last Airbender a lot! But, this video was begging for a 'Secret Tunnel!!' mention! Come on now, HAI! You can do better!😂

[@hydrasaurandre]

When's he referenced Avatar?

[@nirajankhadka0123]

@@hydrasaurandre he mentions fire nation and other stuffs quite a lot on past videos! Don't remember the exact ones though!

[@KillyBesel]

Damn, Cheney hunting joke? I feel like most of your audience is too young to get it

[@Tundra-ec3ii]

I once heard the rate of the tunnelling program described as “they’re digging like gophers on amphetamines”

[@fortusvictus8297]

China uses more concrete in 1 year than all the concrete ever poured EVER in human history before it combined...including the United States and former USSR. Yay for CO2 emissions!

[@lewismassie]

"take a kicking and keep on licking" what kind of saying is that and why do I like it so much

[@Vlasov45]

If used to the be the tag line for a series of Timex watch advertisements in the 50s and 60s. "Take a licking and keep on ticking". Licking being an old fashioned term for a beating, and ticking referring the watch.

[@Sophiebryson510]

Was watching the video about bullfrog county when this came up

[@99xs]

Wtf same

[@NathanASanchez]

You can look up "Underground Project 131 " in Xianning, Hubei Province, China. I've been there, it's been open to tourists since the mid-2000's.

[@BrodieEaton]

Bruh i was about to go to bed how dare you upload 12:48am my time

[@kaivonfintel1627]

Judging by your name being Brodie, you must be Australian

[@SylviaRustyFae]

I feel underground great wall is a grt name for their secret tunnel as one of the uses of the great wall was for speedier transport (primarily of messages using signal fire, but even troops cud be moved along the wall much faster than thru the mountain paths). Which is exactly what a secret tunnel thru the mountains and urban centers wud do. And then theres the obvious defensive implications as they intend the tunnels to be used to protect against attack ofc by putting a wall of earth between them and any attackers... Ergo, the secret secret secret tunnel is an underground great wall.

[@hydrasaurandre]

Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel! Through the mountain! Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel!

[@silliussoddus8751]

Last time I was this early HAI was on good terms with Wendover

[@hydrasaurandre]

Ok, I can't be the only one with that song stuck in my head now... SECRET TUNNEL, SECRET TUNNEL! THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS! SECRET TUNNEL!

[@JS-pl6zw]

SECRET TUNNELLLLLL, SECRET TUNELLLLLL

[@rune8507]

Hope y'all have a good day 🙂🙂

[@ichifrhn2204]

Came here just to sing secret tunnel with sokka

[@7hi5on35]

Why China Has 3,000 Miles of Secret Tunnels. Because where else is Winnie the pooh supposed to store his honey?

[@EvilBurp]

This reminds me of Moscow's nuke-safe metro system. It's doors are a metre thick blast doors, so that the entire subway system could be turned in a nuke shelter

[@MrSlipperyseal]

The Richter scale isnt used for earthquakes in china. It would have been 8 moment magnitudes cus the moment magnitude scale is used for earthquakes almost everywhere

[@JojishiAMVs]

Can't wait for Dark Mane to start popping those tunnels.

[@Thehackerguy2000]

I swear the writer & editor have too much fun with these videos.

[@Professor_Chaos]

Two lovers, forbidden from one another A war divides their people And a mountain divides them apart Built a path to be together ...Yeah, and I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes... Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel! Through the mountain! Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel! Yeah!

[@Marwan_og]

The amount of jokes thrown every minute is so much that I can't keep up with them

[@EmsiYTs]

The Boring with slides was your best ever joke Sam!

[@Partyrockscool]

Me: I should probably sleep early tonight Also me at 2 am: Hmm, HAI has uploaded another video, *interesting*

[@dylanclarke1695]

You watched this video at 6pm

[@supremeclamitas5053]

@@dylanclarke1695 How do you know that this person did?

[@hajfksdl]

I like the stock footage :)

[@Koala1203]

Albania: I have the most bunkers in the world! China: Challenge accepted.

[@181Days]

I LOVE the shade at the beginning of this video

[@toozydude2]

The Great Wall is the western name, direct translation is actually "long/great city". So actual, underground city is fine.

[@speedy01247]

you can't tell Sam a secret without him making a video about it.

[@zRhid]

You really did it all with the jokes in this episode

[@mayoite160]

man this guy's really not planning on travelling to China anytime soon

[@jamarti3]

Artelleriry?!? 😂🤣😂

[@adrielsebastian5216]

Fun fact: the only country that can protect its entire population and then some from nuclear fallout is Switzerland

[@morbid747]

Nuclear winter that can last for decades would make the living envy the dead.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

The number of countries that could wipe out their entire population and then some from nuclear fallout is much higher.

[@williamgordon5708]

The tunnel projects are called "Third Line (of defense) Construction," basically intended to be Mao's Alamo. Funny cuz when they started construction during the early 60s, China was expecting the Soviets, not the US to nuke us. It's quite similar to Albania's bunker frenzy, but a lot more complex. The tunnels were basically finished before the 60s ended, as millions of engineers and billions of RMBs were thrown into a rather senseless building spree. After the 80s, most further construction involves upgrading and modernizing the tunnels to allow trains and missile vehicles to drive in. Fun fact: bright orange signs are relatively common in Chinese residential districts, denoting public bomb shelters. The massive underground parking garages have huge blast doors, and can probably house tens of thousands during war time (gosh we sure do like to think about war). They say that beneath Beijing, the ground was completely hollowed out, but everything is more secretive in Beijing so who knows for sure?

[@Cherb123456]

Damn would love how extensive and massive their Tunnel-system has become

[@clarkeysam]

China actually has 3,001 miles of secret tunnels, but that last mile is super secret!

[@TechedWharf]

The tunnels aren’t secret anymore

[@b0chen]

you missed the opportunity to use the "secret tunnel" song

[@nolastnametysonchu2137]

As a Chinese, I should like to clarofy that the secret tunnel's loca-

[@raspberrypie3826]

Off to the gulag

[@jeffreypierson2064]

@@raspberrypie3826 The Soviets had gulags. The CCP has reeducation camps. You can meet Uighurs there.

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Well I went to the government of China's website and found their email ( Public info ) - "[e-mail]" . Let us all email chinese government reminding them of the uighur concentration camps

[@tomhappening]

lmao

[@PrograError]

let's make it explode like a nuclear winter.

[@rickycoker5830]

Fun Fact...most of the people triggered by the Uygher situation are not fond of Muslims anyway

[@raznatalia141]

LMAO @ The Voice Sync on 0:31

[@rixrobin]

Love the instrumental in this one

[@nickcs2006]

*Chinese government wants to know your location*

[@BHuang92]

"Vietnamese used tunnels to defeat Americans" China: *May I copy your homework?*

[@qifuhyue3568]

*vietnam war flashbacks*

[@cassiopesysg5423]

The fun fact is that the Chinese government was actually teaching the Vietnamese how to dug tunnels to fight America. (As we used it in WW2 against Japanese) When the Sino-vietnam border war broke out in late 1970s, both side uses tunnel tactics and several tunneling encounter happened underground

[@clmdcc]

Can you also do a video on the russian sub subway tunnels? Or some of the US bunkers?

[@plague180]

This is easily one of my favorite episodes 😂😂😂

[@Hopalong99]

“Everything’s bigger in China” Apart from the people

[@theviniso]

And salaries

[@harsh3624]

When your reccomendations is faster than the notifications.

[@lucykwiatek5159]

Just a topic suggestion: Ark Encounter and their many, many issues with Kentucky taxes.

[@johnvanerick5091]

I thought this was a polymatter video for a sec lol

[@LonelyRacoon]

Writer: How edgy do you want it to be? HAI: Yes

[@6z0]

I was just thinking of you, this couldnt of been better timing

[@CriticalRider]

It could *have* been better grammar, though.

[@shruti2122]

What I learned today *Why be regular boring when you can be boring with slides*

[@tsheposeanego5582]

Yooooo the jokes were just flying off in this episode 🤣🤣

[@MalaysiaIsProChannel]

"Whether it big wall or big dam" Xin Jin Ping: intresting i wont censor this "Or this boy with his bi-" *This video was censored by the Chinese goverment*

[@penguinpingu3807]

Well either way KZbin is censored by the Chinese government, so they don't need to lift a finger to censor this video.

[@MalaysiaIsProChannel]

@@penguinpingu3807 *VPN:allow us to introduce ourself* Xin Jin Ping on Chinese VPN: *allow me to introduce myself*

[@penguinpingu3807]

@@MalaysiaIsProChannel fair play

[@damndanielthesuctioncupdan]

oof China whatcha doing?

[@brandon025]

Congrats

[@alfonsrasmus4710]

Congrats ur first

[@MaybEmmy]

My guy made a comment and changed it in 8 seconds

[@brandon025]

@@MaybEmmy it was E then oof

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[@ryanfoss3894]

There's a song about this. I forget a lot of the words but it goes something like this. "Secret tunnellll, Secret tunnelll. Through the mountains, Secret Secret Secret Secret Secret tunnellllll!"

[@michelleayres5608]

This is your best video, ever. Definitely the funniest.

[@samuel28858]

The map at 0:27 is tilted slightly, so it showing the wrong areas as belonging to China

[@timalexander1811]

Sam wanted to free a little bit of Tibet

[@haldunsuphiseyhun362]

How the ship got stucked in suez canal ?? A video by you would be fun and informative about that :D

[@peachierose3356]

the video that finally made me out come out my tunnels

[@ComicSads]

Honestly these videos would be a least 5 times more interesting if there weren't any jokes and we were just left with the good educational content

[@GarethDaviesNZ]

That's why it's Half as Interesting and not Five Times as Interesting

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

Well I went to the government of China's website and found their email ( Public info ) - "[e-mail]" . Let us all email chinese government reminding them of the uighur concentration camps

[@sterlingarcher8041]

lol

[@epicstuff7522]

damn

[@fyang1429]

If they read these things even in Chinese then all the people who got bullied by the local governments would have gotten some better settlements.

[@LiveLNXgaming]

wow that opening line. very nice

[@Rexluna1]

2:50 he says "artillery" like "artillerary" 😂

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[@InventorZahran]

"...Delve deeper into your curiosities..." No no no, that's Curiosity Stream's job!

[@comicalcarpet]

Has Sam been alone for a few days? Funniest video in a damn fine while

[@gelgamath_9903]

Ok I filed my official complaint with the Chinese government. I put links to this video and all your social media accounts in my complaint so hopefully they will contact you soon.

[@ohyeah5806]

Saying voter id laws among with other legal obligations states have to fulfill (like requiring certain common-place paperwork in order to rejoin voter rolls) is racist, is pretty condescending and can be interpreted in and of itself, racist to us minorities. Just sayin

[@wh2960]

0:12 Georgia (State): You challenge me?

[@joermnyc]

US Defense strategy meeting: “We must target these areas and other key map squiggles.”

[@TheGrinningViking]

Secret tunnel, through the mountain - secret secret secret secret tunnel!

[@ladyheinz]

I love your humor.

[@dirtz5702]

Als erstes Kamera Team der Welt dürfen wir von Galileo die 3000 Km geheime Tunnel Chinas Filmen