Why China's real Geography Weakness is Water

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[@tubarlog]

I have read many articles about the Three Gorges Dam, but you are the first one, who pointed out, that it is not only for electricity production, but also for storing fresh water. I am always amazed, how you put thing in a different light, then most other media outlets! ❤

[@Kamome163]

Wow, thank you so much Norbert. I'm glad that I hit the nail on the head there.

[@didierduplantier8359]

Isn’t it obvious?

[@李荣-n7s]

To be honest, the Yangtze River is located in southern China and does not lack precipitation, so there is no need to store water at all. On the contrary, due to excessive water, there are annual floods. So the first function of the Three Gorges Dam is flood control, followed by power generation. Storage water? I have never heard of it in China

[@sumyamchi]

@@李荣-n7s Storage of water means water regulation such that the water flow is enough for adequate hydro power generation and ship navigation during the dry season. It also intrinsically means flood and drought control since you need to store water to stop flood waters and release water during droughts.

[@李荣-n7s]

@@sumyamchi Water storage is also used for flood prevention. The first purpose of the Three Gorges Dam is flood control. China did not build the Three Gorges Dam just for water storage. I'm not saying it casually. In Chinese high school textbooks, it's written that the reason why China built the Three Gorges Dam - the primary purpose is flood control

[@derhuhu3375]

A little bit of nitpicking for the section at 16:36... Russia and Brazil both have the problem that most of their navigable rivers are where neither most of the industry, nor most of the people are located, mainly in the Amazon and in Siberia, so there isn't really a point in trying to move a lot of additional cargo along them. Russia has the added difficulty of a lot of their navigable rivers freezing during winter, thereby making them unreliable, and other potentially more useful ones like the Volga connecting to inland bodies of water like the Caspian Sea, only being connected to the Don and thereby the Black Sea by a fairly small canal. Otherwise it's a really good video

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[@Kamome163]

Thanks

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fantastic video! I love the high quality and edited graphic's i can imagine they take a lot of time of effort! but also want to shine a light on some smaller things, like the counter in the corner for which source you used for it. accompanied with you calm voice im sure you'll do amazing! I had just one small thing: you tend to turn a lot when zooming in on maps. while cinematographically a bit of movement is nice, for anchoring where we are geographically it might be nice to tone down the movement a bit. so we are not upside down for instance, as we are mostly familiar with a south to north perspective.

[@Kamome163]

Thank you so much for the kind comment and feedback Bernd! I really appreciate it. Do you think a less dynamic and North up composition would be more understandable? Do you think adding a North pointing indicator in one corner could somehow reduce the disorientation? I really appreciate you taking the time to write this message and I'll try to improve on the next one. Thanks :)

[@Shadowgunner785]

It's always good to remember, that some of the most powerful and richest nations have ease of access. River have been essential for creating trade, as well as discovering new land which we have seen in the Americas. China's rivers are a valuable lifeline for it's economy, and this can be seen as very important when dealing with them as an adversary in the future, as these rivers were how many European nations and later Japan attacked and conquered Chinese lands. And if these rivers are cut off in any way, it can destroy china's economy. Great video as all ways Kamome!!!! Now we just need a video on South Africa or South America and I will be able to die in peace!!!

[@Kamome163]

That's on point. Those rivers are one of China's logistical backbones and if now support China's economy they can equally threaten, if they can't be used, or are used by potential adversaries. Rivers sustains big urban centres. From London to NYC, from Moscow to Shanghai, those rivers are often overlook strategic factors. Hahahahah we'll need to have plenty of videos on South America and South Africa before you can die in peace😂

[@Western_Decline]

@@Kamome163 Homeboy needs to calm down on Europeans attacking and conquering Chinese lands. I don't believe that's how Hwyytte people spread democracy any more.

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Keep your imperialist wet dreams to yourself. The West needs to stop invading & murdering people.

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[@joshtep6784]

While you are historically accurate, that type of conquest of China is no longer feasible. During the Second World War, Japan tried to do something similar but got caught in a logistical quagmire in the upper Yangtze. The resistance Japan faced there was ultimately devastating and made it so that Japan couldn't completely conquer China once they moved the capital to Chongqing. It took Britain a long time to develop the kind of river boat supremacy to subdue China but that was only after they seized Hong Kong. The reoccuring theme is that China was humiliated because they did not focus on naval power and were technologically behind. Now China has the largest navy in the world and is only a generation of weapon systems away from the US. America lost to Vietnam in a war of conquest IMMEDIATELY AFTER they became independent. No country has the capacity to infiltrate China without an astronomical investment into their military with the sole intent of conquering China like the Steppe peoples.

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[@GBA811]

Brazil, barely has waterways because geography isn't so favorable, since most of geography is mountainous, resulting in many rapids and waterfalls, so they need to build huge dams, but most of it doesn't have locks since rivers are mostly used for hydropower, a major example of this is the Parana River, a tributary of the Rio de La Plata where it was build at the time the largest Hydropower dam in the world: the Itaipu Dam, but there is no locks into it. So cargo instead of loading into vessels in the Parana river or tributaries such as the Tietê, all cargo is loaded into trucks and goes in a huge highway journey, passing through São Paulo homonymus capital, and then take the Imigrantes Highway in the Serra do Mar moutains all the way down to the Port of Santos, and unload there and export to the exterior markets. There are railways build in the late 1800's which helps, but must of the cargo is transported by truck since both Mato Grosso (do Sul) barely have any Railways, and they are West of the Parana River. But considering that cargo going down the Parana river would necessarity to go first into Paraguay and then into a port in Argentina or Uruguay, Brazil decided that it wasn't advantegeous, and looking at the historic at the region, you can see why Brazil was involved in six wars in the 1800's for the control the Mesopotamia Region upstream of Rio de La Plata.

[@Kamome163]

Thank you so much for the illuminating point. Do you think the if those dams had locks, could they be used to extend inland navigation? Would that be feasible? I'd love to learn more about this, do you have recommended book or article? If you do, could you send me the title here? [e-mail]

[@GBA811]

​@@Kamome163 Yes, I do think so, the Tietê river has become a navigable waterway but far as I know isn't used as much as it should, assuming for the reasons I have already covered. I'm going to make futher comentaries via email so we can make this conversation more easily, with links, and images etc.

[@Joacazz]

​@@Kamome163 It would at a huge expense, locks on the Paraná basin would have to be built on mass. Those rivers aren't navigable, or just a few steps away from that. Brazil has a huge network of navigable rivers in the Amazon basin, where the rivers are the main way of transportation, but its mostly rainforest over there.

[@Kamome163]

@@GBA811 awesome I really appreciate that!

[@Kamome163]

@@Joacazz Thanks for the comment! I guess it would make much more sense to build those along the Paranà basin. IIRC that’s also where the big chunk of Brazilian agricultural economy is based at.

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[@Fireneedsair]

Fantastic videos and graphics. One point: brasil is a bad example to compare to the others for river navigation as the steep escarpment that much of coastal brasil abuts in very limiting and that is why inland brasil is very sparsely populated

[@Kamome163]

Thank you Dan, that's a great point. IIRC correctly that's also why Brazilian big cities are quite afar from each other. On the other hand, I was wondering wouldn't waterways transports help in overcoming that elevation difference, or is it just logistically unfeasible?

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[@dobeeeeval]

So you've never heard of the Unified Deep Water System in Russia? Not sure how much more they could do to utilize their inland waterways. Theoretically could extend it into Siberia and tie in the Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and Lake Baikal, but that seems a bit infeasible. Even if they weren't currently leading their country to ruin.

[@watershed8685]

Yeah, I feel like this channel sacrifices too much of research quality as of late and doesn’t go deep enough considering the vastness of geopolitics

[@Kamome163]

That's a good point. I've made a video on it kzbin.info/www/bejne/omauiZh8mdWsl6c

[@Kamome163]

@@watershed8685 Did you even check the video bibliography?

[@watershed8685]

@@Kamome163 I didn’t and I don’t mean to say you don’t do the minimum research-wise. However you made it seem like channels, dams and dredging are not without major negative consequences not only for nature but the Chinese people. I’m not an expert but I heard from multiple sources their river works are very harmful to both water volumes, quality, river stability and overall environment. I expected you would shed some light on that. However my comment pertained mostly to Russia’s potential in river transport, in the end of this video you made it seem like they have a lot of it. No, they don’t, because they mostly flow northward, and that creates huge ice jams every fall and spring and such rivers go into economically infeasible areas. I get that there’s only so much you can put in a video. I just you know, expected just a bit more. Yeah, with fame come expectations. That’s just my feedback, you can ignore it as is your privilege.

[@Kamome163]

@@watershed8685 oh I understand where you’re coming from and I really do appreciate that you took the time to argument your reply. There’s a lots of other people who comments without even checking the sources and I’m glad you’re not one of those. You don’t know how many people do that😅 I guess you are specifically referring to the three gorges dam and the North South transfer project. What I could gather from my research is that there are very different analysis results on the impact of those two projects and I preferred to stay focused on the freshwater quantity and quality. That’s a trade-off I had to make otherwise the video would’ve been noticeably longer. Gotcha. That’s a great point and thank you for raising that up. In the reference to Russia, I referred to Deep Water Unified System which IIRC is not that prone to icing. OC other rivers ice much more often. If you want you can check a previous video on Russia weakness and I talk about that there. That being said, thank you for your frank reply! BTW if you wanna go deeper on Chinese waterways environmental and economic impacts, in the video bibliography there’s a link to a world bank work paper that’s quite interesting. Thanks

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[@EduardQualls]

The North-South water transfer system is already a failure, and so is the Three-Gorges project. The first has so much sedimentation build-up that it is unusable in many places; the second has disrupted waterflow down stream to the point that what was once the largest freshwater lake in the PRC is silting up and dying. The northwest, including Beijing, has pumped so much ground water that large swathes are subsiding. 80% of the PRC's underground water is polluted, some to the point of being unsalvageable. Just as with economics, the Chinese Communist Party shows in it infrastructure-mania that it has no concept of secondary or tertiary effects, ones that doom their wasteful spending-sprees to failure.

[@Kamome163]

Hey Edward, thanks for the comment! Could you link sources for the sediments in the NSP and “80% of groundwater is polluted”?

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[@Itried20takennames]

Don’t know for sure, but heard that in China, the 40% that do have tap water generally won’t use it to drink or cook, due to contamination concerns, and that even small apartments will have a water cooler and a bunch of water refills.

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the sad reality is the Dam holds the water when it’s dry season, release it when it’s wet

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Beijing was not a center of power for ancient chinese civilisation, beijing was considered a periphery city (one of the evidence is the great wall of china running through Beijing).

[@bbqzxk]

The existing Great Wall of Beijing was built in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Beijing was the capital of China. Although it was a marginal city, it was very important because the North China Plain was located to the south of Beijing, which led directly to the south. The rulers of China at that time decided to build the capital in Beijing because they believed that the emperor had to guard the country's gate.

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[@catbertz]

Really nice work exploring this topic!

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Thank you so much catbertz

[@oldporkchops]

If the Jones Act is repealed the US would win the navigable waterway contest. It is also important to consider where the navigable waterways flow from and to. Are China's navigable waterways strategically located to facilitate efficient transport of cargo from inland manufacturing and agriculture hubs to ports and population consumption areas?

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Which makes the chinese poluting their rivers and streams insane.

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[@notrich]

as a Chinese I can confirm that we do melt upon touching water

[@Rob_F8F]

First video that I have seen on this subject. Excellent presentation with illuminating illustrations.

[@Kamome163]

Thanks Rob!

[@paultsjan6047]

Fresh water is necessary for the survival of all living organisms and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms. China understands the need to provide water for its 1.4 billion people as it is a basic necessity for lives. Thus the huge infrastructure for dam construction and the diversion of water from the south to the north of China. Dams and their reservoirs play an important role in social and economic development as they help supply seasonal water needs or generate renewable energy.

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[@Kamome163]

I totally agree! And that would drastically helps Brazil overcoming its rough geography! We might do a video on that🤩

[@Dangur2]

Unlike other countries mentioned, Russia can use most of the waterways only during the summer and early autumn. Although, when the ice becomes thick enough, the rivers are used as roads for trucks - probably for a bigger part of the year.

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Very good. I thought there would be more on the north/south water diversion project.

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Thank you Cameron!

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Jarring sponsor segue. Very interesting documentary! Thanks. Didn’t know about how extensive the waterways are in China.

[@johndesade126]

They are extensive, but the Communist government has allowed them to become polluted: example, the Great South-North Waterway was a good idea, but they screwed it up by running a segment of the water transfer system through a polluted lake; hence, the cities do not want it!

[@xy.j8294]

As a chinese,i would say, water was a problem to china ,but not a big problem now. the situation of water shortage is much better than most coutries in the world.

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Climate change is in every country! In China every year there’s a once in a thousand year event of either drought or flood. That’s a clear sign of climate change wrecking havoc in your country. Anyway, censorship in your country ensures everyone thinks the flood and drought are no big deal. Everyone in China overestimated themselves in thinking their government is able to solve everything.

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Great explainer, well done

[@bruceyung70]

In all honesty more video needs to be made of New Orleans during Hurricane Harvey and focus more at home turf. We had so many influx of people fleeing during flooding of the entire city with dam collapsing. Please don’t worry about them for godsakes we have plenty issues at home.

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[@Kamome163]

Thank you so much

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[@Kamome163]

Thanks!!

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[@timthetiny7538]

The US navigable waterway network is far larger than China's

[@thomaswright4489]

First off wanted to say really appreciate the time put into research this video, this is the first time I have heard of that 2-1-2-18 network, and it gave a good basis for understanding the Chinese internal waterways of China. However I wanted question the last part of the video, with the heavy focus on internal waterway freight transport. Despite an almost double rate of use of Chinese internal waterways than their EU and US equivalence the rate is still rather small (only 7%), and despite the mode of transport being far cheaper than train and road (by Cost/tonnes-km) it seems it is still less relied on. It would be interesting to go further into the reasoning why it is rather unused or unreliable if you do a future video perhaps on the transport infrastructure (rails and roads of china) and why they are more heavily relied on for transportation.

[@hughmungus2760]

someone really needs to stick this video in the faces of all those peter zeihan fanboys who think only the US has navigable waterways.

[@thomaswright4489]

​@@hughmungus2760 I think it is more so the size of the watershed, and location of watershed given to other locations like cities and bodies of water. (Data from Wikipedia) For example China's largest river basins Yangtze, Yellow River, and Pearl River combined amount to 3 million km2 while just the Mississippi-Missouri River Basin is 3.2 million km2, and that's without the additions of the other river watersheds in US shared with Canada and Mexico (St Lawrence, Snake River, and Colorado). Also I think the interoperability of the waterways between the Pacific and Atlantic is also exploitable by US. The other 2 countries that seems to have a large river basin are Brazil and India. I would venture to say the reason Brazil's is hard to exploit is the inhospitability of the Amazon forest and vast distance between their watershed and the major cities Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro on the other side of Brazil, but I could be wrong. And for India I have no idea.

[@jimmyli56]

In 2021, only 40% of Chinese had access to tap water? where did you get this data??? I mean: China will get a coverage of 87% in rural areas( data from China govement ), and in cities ,this data is almost 100%... Anyway, Fresh water resources are indeed a problem that the Chinese government has been facing, but things are far from as serious as this video says. The period when China’s water pollution was the worst and the era when China was most water-scarce has long passed

[@helixator3975]

Use static maps please. Spinning them round on a turntable, while talking about south flowing rivers or growing northern cities make it very hard to figure out where and what you’re talking about. (Sometimes with technology, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should ! )

[@snowade]

I personally would like a video about the Sichuan basin in China & how Sichuan basin played an important role in Chinese history

[@Kiyoone]

another video made by specialists that never ever set a foot inside China? *GREAT*

[@peta333]

Or so you assume…

[@ruifenghuang1029]

@@peta333 Logically mentioning this would help his credibility

[@peta333]

@@ruifenghuang1029 no, not at all. @Kiyoone is speaking to play the role of victim and is looking for fellow bigoted people to feel pity. Chinese are no victim, I was so sick of seeing kungfu films as a kid and the requisite “have pity for us poor Chinese people” lines. I’m 李艾迪, I’m proud of my ancestry, we are not inferior nor is the world “out to destroy us.” Finally, no, your logic is flawed.

[@ruifenghuang1029]

@@peta333 Imagine taking a Chinese, who has never set foot in US, don't speak English, view about America seriously

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Another top notch quality video

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These are some awesome graphics.

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[@Kamome163]

Thanks Hotsky! Blood, tears and sweat is the answer 😂

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[@Leap6]

Thank you for highlighting this issue and thats the precise reason why china is trying sp hard to capture arunachal pradesh.

[@santaclaus0815]

If the Caspian Sea were connected to the Black Sea by a canal (e.g. a canal from the mouth of the Don at the Sea of Azov to the coast of the Caspian Sea near Artezian), the Caspian Sea would fill up again to sea level. The Caspian Sea would also increase in area and thus more water would evaporate. The result would be more precipitation around the Caspian Sea, especially west of it. The effect would probably extend to northwest China.

[@nirvana3921]

Western China is indeed short of water and drought. But most of it is a no-man's land. However, Chinese mouth is densely populated by the Yangtze and Yellow rivers and countless tributaries. The author apparently does not know anything about the geography and reality of China.

[@bcarrico329]

Kamome, I'm a little confused, because I've always heard that America's big advantage has always been our vastly superior network of continuously navigable waterways? Can you help me? What am I thinking of?

[@cdmcmxcvi1249]

They have more “waterways”, our fewer waterways are longer.

[@bcarrico329]

@@cdmcmxcvi1249 i still don't understand America's huge advantage in navigable waterways compared to China. It's just that the Mississippi is longer than the Yangtze?

[@cdmcmxcvi1249]

@@bcarrico329 All of our inland rivers which are wide, deep, and not subject to the weather patterns. And the inter-coastal waterway.

[@bcarrico329]

@@cdmcmxcvi1249 okay, but I read a stat that China has way more inland navigable waterways, and that a lot of them are interconnected. So, most of them aren't navigable for barges, but are navigable for canoes? What's the distinction? Is it the wide and deep and weather thing for most of China? That makes the vast majority of their navigable waterways useless to industrial traffic?

[@user-qwertyuiopasdfghj]

@@bcarrico329Rivers in north China are mostly unnavigable due to low and uneven precipitation. Yangtze and pearl river in south China have high navigability value which connect inland areas to the coast

[@rm82612]

The map at 14:16 was absolutely incredible!

[@Kamome163]

I'm glad you like that one! I wanted to show how those rivers traverse incredible terrain elevation. It is also incredible to see how Tibet is essential in providing water during spring and summer to majority of the region!

[@peterlongland6862]

You only just touched on the water polluissues within china. They are much worse than you suggest. A vast amount of water in china is so polluted it's beyond any purification system known to fix. You also left out how china is preventing water flow into other countries such as veitnam etc. The Mekong River is 30cm below its normal levels. China has placed 2 dams on the Mekong with 9 more on the drawing boards. This is extremely bad news for any countries down streem

[@reneboygarcia]

What If? a colab with @johnnyharris and @Kamome163 about maps, politics, economics.... 🤯🤯

[@TAPATIOPLEASE]

Lol you got skemthing here bro very nice and never watched your videos before

[@vu4y3fo846y]

Great work 💯

[@wrhytz]

Water is the foundation of every civilization.

[@jarrettbobbett5230]

This is a great channel. 👍

[@Kamome163]

Thank you Jarrett

[@SecondComingTwice]

No mention of weather modification? There are companies worldwide supplying precipitation made to order.

[@miketheneanderthal9490]

Your video is informative, beautifully edited, and well informed about the challenges China faces concerning water volume and more significantly, pollution levels. I have been to China many times, my wife and daughter are Chinese citizens from northern China. Pollution levels and water quality in China are both atrocious. Seeing first hand how the Chinese government operates, I would say that China will do the barest of minimum to fight pollution, water quality and climate change. By minimum I mean little more than what it takes to make sure it's work force doesn't die in large quantities. I use the term work force, rather than population, because ultimately that's all the Chinese government cares about.

[@ChinchillaBONK]

I have no idea how you do these stunning 3D sceneries with the camera moving around like a drone

[@icemanlol119]

I’ve been saying this for years “let’s protect our water”

[@simondodd918]

It doesn’t make sense to me that a policy such as expanded use of water transport could be obviously beneficial, yet not adopted. Which makes me wonder if it is is obviously beneficial as I think it is.

[@Kamome163]

That’s a good point! I think it depends on a country specific geographic conditions where deep drafted waterways meet industrial hubs which relies on moving bulk cargo. Germany’s Rhein, the US Mississippi River system and China Yangtze are cases in point. But there are a few other countries where inland waterways transportation makes sense. There’s a World Bank working paper in the sources you can find more details there.

[@redindian2209]

To give another perspective on why Water is a weakness. You see, the great Pm of Singapore said Air Conditioning was the greatest invention ever. And you know air conditioning requires lots of water, and thats for a country the size of Singapore, a drop in the ocean. There are probably 100x societies the size of singapore in china and they are consumer socieitys. outside that, we have producer societies which which produce our food, etc. and things like this. I am always praying for the best outcome for all.

[@Kamome163]

Great point! Expanding on LKY and Singapore’s reliance of water, in his memories LKY said that Malaysia was Singapore main existential threat as without its water, Singapore would’ve survived three days.

[@didierduplantier8359]

Pre pandemic, they were building 2 coal based power plants per months. If they don’t clean up their pollution problems, in 10 years they will have to deal with a huge health issue with their population