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.

[@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.

[@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

[@RADICALFLOAT_95]

Yes but actually no

[@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

[@ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ]

In case of what?

[@agent7861]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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! 👍

[@CatGPT6]

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.

[@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.

[@alexangelis9502]

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

[@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”.

[@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

[@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

[@m_srnw]

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

[@MaximNightFury]

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?

[@MaximNightFury]

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

[@ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ]

@@MaximNightFury your joke wasn’t very funny unfortunately

[@MaximNightFury]

@@ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ So far 25 people disagree

[@sednavaporeon7226]

Hey! I know you! Didn't know you watch HAI! Dude you totally got a subscriber!

[@pilotlewis1578]

It’s more interesting that someone counted

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@Pompomatic]

1:11 gives rough estimate in metric 1:14 gives precise estimate in imperial what.

[@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!

[@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.

[@Hobbes4ever]

They even made a movie in 1965 called Tunnel War

[@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

[@FalconFetus8]

Crazy that China and India are the only countries with a no-first-strike pledge. I feel like that should be an international norm.

[@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!

[@tonymonk8718]

I actually went to Beijing in the the 1980s. At that time we were invited to go into the underground city of Beijing as we were special guests of the Chinese government. What I saw was almost unbelievable like something out of a James Bond film. The channels that we saw then were complete which completely debunks some of the statements made in this film which I regard as insulting Tosh. The tunnels were last with shops universities cinemas et cetera. I’m not saying that this is fake news it’s just that it’s content is Illinformed and therefore unreliable. The tunnels in Beijing did and maybe still do exist.

[@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?

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

I mean, if nuclear war _actually_ broke off, who would be left to reprimand any country for violating their "no first use" policy?

[@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.

[@abqmalenurse]

Russia also has no first strike policy.

[@coolnotcool-wq7nx]

should uhh we tell him

[@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!

[@toozydude2]

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

[@kindandrespectfulcommenter3292]

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.

[@gunnerysgthartman9263]

Sam is gonna keep getting this comment for the rest of time 😆

[@killianholm2283]

Paperclips!!!!!!!!

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I appreciate your dedication to the profile.

[@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!

[@andrewwith9017]

Just Remember its not a war crime if you win

[@silliussoddus8751]

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

[@TheMrFabian1]

That joke about Szechuan was kinda saucy.

[@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

[@JS-pl6zw]

SECRET TUNNELLLLLL, SECRET TUNELLLLLL

[@Sarahbryson321]

Was watching the video about bullfrog county when this came up

[@99xs]

Wtf same

[@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?

[@KillyBesel]

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

[@ichifrhn2204]

Came here just to sing secret tunnel with sokka

[@Thehackerguy2000]

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

[@sesmeltz1965]

The opening joke about Texas voter suppression hurt. A lot. *sigh* Nicely done…

[@rune8507]

Hope y'all have a good day 🙂🙂

[@hallowizer440]

But I wanted another video about bricks.

[@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!

[@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

[@nicktlkj]

*Chinese government wants to know your location*

[@tylernass6263]

calls china uncreative in naming the tunnels, then reveals china didn't give them that name

[@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?

[@TheGrinningViking]

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

[@speedy01247]

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

[@clarkeysam]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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!"

[@hajfksdl]

I like the stock footage :)

[@lucykwiatek5159]

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

[@jamarti3]

Artelleriry?!? 😂🤣😂

[@b0chen]

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

[@azazzelx]

as all other countries do...

[@ObligedUniform]

"Including the voter suppression" Texas: challenge accepted.

[@zainmudassir2964]

The are miles of tunnels and underground railroads in the US from the civil war era. Do a video on that too

[@olentangyriver1191]

I actually live near some of them

[@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

[@koharumi1]

"China is like the world's Texas. Everything is bigger there." Err no. That is not true. The people are definitely not bigger.

[@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

[@JojishiAMVs]

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

[@aH00man]

Bricks

[@jacobschweiger5897]

requring people show who they are with a free id is not voter supression

[@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

[@deep.space.12]

Everything is bigger in China except [InsertCheneyFirstName]s.

[@michaellaudahn]

You're talking to a global audience here. The global standard of measurements is the metric system. Show some basic consideration & courtesy, use it in a situation like this! Don't you lot learn behaviour in school?

[@yashasparekh6031]

This video's jokes were better-ish than the other jokes

[@181Days]

I LOVE the shade at the beginning of this video

[@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

[@jms5538]

Dick Cheney hunting joke. Classic comedy.

[@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

[@TDenterpriser]

Do a video on the Moscow metro system

[@6z0]

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

[@MotoRiderTube]

It could *have* been better grammar, though.

[@miloPRcohen]

The Boring with slides was your best ever joke Sam!

[@harsh3624]

When your reccomendations is faster than the notifications.

[@alexanderphilip1809]

Texas wouldnt be Texas without the people who vote for it to stay that way.

[@7hi5on35]

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

[@Cherb123456]

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

[@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

[@bsgross606]

lol the whole earth snake vs earthquake bit really made me laugh. My sense of humor aligns well with this channel!

[@LonelyRacoon]

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

[@kisaragi-hiu]

1:52 It's actually not that absurd before translation as the word for a wall in "great wall" ("城" in 長城) is usually used to mean a city. Doesn't make it any more creative though.

[@TechedWharf]

The tunnels aren’t secret anymore

[@alcazar123456]

“Voter suppression” aka asking people to show ID lol

[@aayushshirodkar]

Notification Gang Here!

[@ladyheinz]

I love your humor.

[@Hopalong99]

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

[@theviniso]

And salaries

[@michelleayres5608]

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