The Insane Chinese Plan to Build a Canal Across Nicaragua
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3:20
construction guy: just make it a little wider
Builder: OK
*10% of Nicaragua's landmass disappears
*10 ○\○*
That's why I love this channel. Learn new stuff all the time!
China-Let’s built a new canal! *Ghost of Teddy Roosevelt-“Allow me to introduce myself”
@EMILIANO BARRIOS CHAVEZ
Bruh, it already is. It's called the Panama Canal
corporate shill thats a *canal* , manmade , and that does not count as splitting because there are bridges
This plan is especially odd when you remember that Nicaragua is one of the few countries to recognise Taiwan over Mainland China.
They want to put Nicaragua in debt then get them to say the otherwise later.
China wants control over the country, then Taiwan will be part of China again. SMH
Pragmatism my boi, if they gain influence over Nicaragua that would have been nothing
You have to think about the Monroe doctrine and US would shut it down because they don't like superpowers on its door
I was just thinking that. 🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
Nicaragua canal: "it's created"
Costa Rica: Well, now I'm an island.
How
@@santiagobaras4893 panama canal and nicaragua canal
@@endlesserrors ty sir
Costa Rica? More like Isla Rica
My country
The thing is, the US actually originally considered building it in Nicaragua because of the lake and the San Juan River which would cut down on the digging required. They even did surveys and plans were pretty much underway. So what made them change to Panama? Enter the French. The French already attempted to build a canal in Panama with the help of Ferdinand de Lesseps who also developed the Suez Canal. Attempt because they tried to build it the exact same way they did in Egypt, it didn't work, thousands of workers died and when he realized how the canal should be built, it was too late. Investments ran out, everyone gave up on it and left...except for one man, Philippe Bunau-Varilla.
He wanted to earn big bucks on the canal, and did whatever it took. So he persuaded the US, saying that they'd have to worry about a volcano by distributing a Nicaragua stamp with an eruption to Congress, and it worked. But there was a problem, Panama was Colombian at the time, and while Colombia initially supported the French building the canal, the Colombian senate was now against it. This led to the US and Philippe working together, got Panamanians on their side, and began a revolution to break Panama away. To stop a Colombian response to retake it, the US sent its navy to secure the new country. And of course, the US was the first to recognize Panamanian independence
Panama has always tried to separate (because they were in total abandoned) before the US help him to separate from them entirely.
American provoque the Panama secesión from Colombia, cabrones
Then they took the canal from the Americans...lol
@@umadbra Took is the wrong word here. Lets just say we let them run it..
Of course we have to work together. The Americans built the canal by killing the mosquitoes.
**400 years later**
"So let's build the fifth canal through the USA, coz those four aren't wide enough."
and let the Mexicans pay for it.
Miguk Moonpark the u.s. Mexican Canal the ultimate border line
What's laughable is that nobody sees the REAL problem here.
How about we STOP BUILDING BIGGER AND BIGGER SHIPS!! Maybe canals won't become obsolete in less than a hundred years if we stop oversizing our oceangoing vessels. Maybe humankind won't keep having to destroy, and endanger, millions of more miles of natural habitats to keep building new, and bigger canals!
Does logic even OCCUR to these greedy corporate bastards?!!
@@shindari it doesnt work that way though, as more and more people get access to resources more and more stuff will have to be transported accross the world
If we dont build bigger ships for that, we will have to build *a lot* smaller ships, and then the panema canal will look like an LA traffic jam, wich really isnt an option
@@darth3911 Mexico's already creating a canal to search it up.
China: gets 100 years of control over a strategic area of land
Britain: "hey I've seen this one before"
Name Name control in perpatuity as was the deal for the Canal Zone
"what are you talking about it's brand new?"
Yeah because america would allow it to exist or be Chinese lol
@Henryk Gödel man, someone really have to remind china that it's not 1890s anymore
Yeah Suez Canal
“Can you imagine even 10% of those deaths being acceptable to a modern construction company?”
*Qatar World Cup 2022 enters the chat*
hahahahaha!
8:00 just wanna point out that Yellow Fever hasn't made it to Nicaragua just yet. But yeah, the cannal was a terrible idea, and I, like most Nicaraguans, am happy that it wasn't built
“Boats don’t really travel through land.” -Real Life Lore
Hehe tell that to Ottomans.
well... rivers exist!
@@user-jh9nx6tl1n or to the Rus Vikings and the Varangians
@@TheSGtob Or RA 3 Allies.
Just use a submarine and go under the land continents through underwater rivers.
Real Life Lore - “Boats don’t really travel through land.”
The Netherlands - "Am I a joke to you?"
Darth KEK finally! Something I was looking for!
Venice: and make it double.
Fortnite and Minecraft: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!!!
Australian Mapping I don’t get it.
@@wannabehistorian371 Venice is sinking
Fun fact: All the budget require for the canal construcción surprisingly disappeared, on the other side, Ometepe island is a paradise all of u should consider to visit
Greetings,
From a part Nicaraguan.
🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮
Fun fact: Lake Nicaragua is also one of the few places on Earth where multiple species of freshwater sharks live in.
:v
That might be a problem
Why would China want to destroy this 😔
@sadchilo welcome to the CPC
@@WitzclipZ bruh the US did this in Panama and nobody cared 😒
@@the-blues-three that doesn't mean it should be done again.
What's even more insane about all this is that Nicaragua doesn't even have formal diplomatic ties with the PRC. They still recognise the ROC (Taiwan) as the only China.
The fact that Nicaragua was chosen over Mexico
@@randomuser5443 because you have to deal with a government run by a cartel, and proximity to the US
I'm mainland chinese and i think taiwan is belong to Japan.
@@ifyourmarriedyourasimpanda7440 who say that
@@user-cs2cc4do6g lol sure
Thank you for posting. Converting salt water to fresh using solar infrared (heat) for steam engines is viable for reservoirs and canals. It can generate electricity, provide large amounts of sea salt, create a fresh water infrastructure, and even canals.
Idiotic concept. Desalinating sea-water is hugely energy intensive, is rarely done by solar-power alone, will generate ZERO electricity, and is done for domestic water supply by humans in cities, never for something as large-scale as filling canals or filling fresh-water reservoirs.
Yeah,Chinese use enormous amounts of coal.
clicked on this video then started whistling the mii theme and realised 5 minutes of the video have passed without me listening to a single word
"An entire continent separates Europe and Asia"
- RLL(2020)
@Michael Markowsky but he like highlighted a part of Asia itself instead of just Africa
@@aidanrobleto9013 I thought that to but he could've worded that way better
Michael Markowsky it’s a joke
those are 2 different continents, which are separated by another continent.
Michael Markowsky oh I thought he meant North and South America separates Europe from asia
"Can you imagine 4,000 deaths being acceptable to a modern construction company?"
Qatar 2022: *"Yup."*
China building in Nicaragua? Also quite plausible.
4000? I could believe 1000....there's no slaves there. They came voluntarily because life and paychecks are better there than in Nepal, Ethiopia, etc. Same reason people leave Mississippi for Texas or Florida.
@@User31129 Your comment makes no sense. And you can never talk about a country youve never been before. People are earning and living better in nepal. At least theres no death due to health issues(medical costs too high) in Nepal.
@@User31129 There's a difference between coming voluntarily and coming voluntarily but also have your passports seized by your employer so you're trapped in the country with nothing other than the labour job you have.
@@User31129 naive
I've been to lake Nicaragua and the island in the middle which is called Omotepe many consider the 8th Wonder of the world because it's the only Island on a lake with two volcanoes. There are other islands with two volcanoes like Bali for example but they're on the ocean or a sea. This is the only one on the lake and it was such a beautiful spiritual place to spend time it was one of my favorite places in the world and it would be such a tragedy if it turned into a shipping lane. Thank God the plan failed
💜🙏
Lake Cocibolca.
There’s actually a river that connects the lake to the Caribbean. Not sure if it’s sailable, but I’m guessing it could help a little bit.
Random fact:
Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
nice i never knew that, thanks
SciFactsYT k....
Random fact: oranges are orange
@@Goldrunner1169 thanks for telling
OK cool
The Panama expansion project started in 2009, so it was halfway complete when the Nicaragua plan was proposed.
actually panama gonna make the canal more bigerr
@@luismadrid6497 that's what he said, it is the project to expand the canal
oh, ok
It was completed and inaugurated in 2016. It accomodates the largest ships sailing
@@armandoguillen1827, at least until someone insists that they should be 30 feet wider and 100 longer.
Ok sometimes I am looking for a specific video on CZcams but then I see your title and I have to hold of on the other video because your video sounds so interesting. Good job and keep up the good work!
China's reasoning for the Nicaragua canal:
*Nicaragua has been a part of China since ancient times*
"Depending on the size of your ship, this might not be an option for you" showing an Evergreen ship squeezing through the canal in April 2020 and now knowing what happened to an Evergeen ship in March 2021 on the Suez Canal...that clip aged like milk.
He forgot to mention the canal would require more electricity to operate than is available in the entire country.
@RepublicanGuard Nicaragua is such a tiny and poor country, i wouldn't be surprised if this was true, but yeah, we need the source
What about panama
@@soumilyarlagadda9764 ... It's a Great Song!!..... Van Halen 1984
That’s because about 30% of Nicaragua’s energy is geothermal or air power and the geothermal comes from volcanoes the mombacho volcano to be exact because of this Nicaragua’s has some of the best renewable clean energy in Latin America & the canal will need more which I would say is out of capacity of the power plants but because of this Nicaragua also has some of the best clean night skys for star glazing.
I mean, if you're going to invest $40 billion to dig a canal you can probably throw in a couple hundred million for a power plant.
How many *Toyota Corolla's* can be transported through the canal?
The answer depends upon number of likes you get
@UCRXUBMp_YflGwquO6KegLnA At least over 1m, I think?
How many Toyota Corolla's wide will it be?
How much Corolla's will it cost?
At least 5
I thought someone might comment on a series of variations in a "D" category called "the land bridges" which already exist.
Containers could be unloaded at several ports on the Atlantic, Gulf, or Pacifc coast and hauled across the U.S. for reload onto a container vessel. Several examples would be Los Angeles-L
CONTIUNED: Los Angeles-Long Beach to Houston TX or any number of Atlantic ports.
These land bridges are presently utilized to avoid the queues encountered at the entrances to the Panama Canal which on occasion amount to 10 to 14 days. Dedicated land bridge double stack container trains make this transcontinental moment in less than 60 hours.
I am impressed by the commentator’s concern for the environment, the people and the natural habitat. 🤫
The last time I was this early there was no Panama Canal
Edit: thanks for the likes. I will mention this in my next CV.
The last time I was early the coronavirus didn't exist
@@spywalkz1 last time I was this early, the Minoan civilization still existed
@@spywalkz1 The last time I was this early, penguins were able to make sandwiches.
I was still the emperor of Rome the last time i was this early
Lol
*This may sound crazy, but if we remove panama all together...*
*sweats in Central American*
Brandon Kim *chuckles in wider canal*
@Bruce Mckenzie no we cant
@@brandonkim8423 lol
@@ladderking MacArthur would like to disagree with you along with all the nukes that the US has to its disposal
The ships are huge as it is, and if they make the ships any bigger, it would then be difficult for the ports to accommodate them. Even if they had the money I doubt it would go ahead
If you're an Evergreen ship, you'll probably never be allowed to use a canal again!
China sees Suez canal
China: why don't we have one of those
Reallifelore: imma tell you why
Actually china owns world's longest canal which lengths 2,600km in the country built 1,500 years ago. Search about the grand canal
It connects Yangtze and the Yellow river, and Beijing
@@amaramur2436
The west: we did [something] first!
China: we did it 1,000 years ago.
The west: we don't know about it, so it doesn't count.
China actually has a massive canal system, The Grand Canal, that connects the Huang He (Yellow) and Yangtze Rivers.
USA be like. We gonna canal Panama. Job done.
Chyna be like. We gonna fuck the world in 2020 with our virus and then take all the good things. Job ongoing.
''There's an entire continent separating Europe from Asia''
How high are you?
As far as i concerned Europe is just a big peninsula, like India, not a continent.
Григорий Грачёв europe is a continent
Lol right
@@user-xw5xo3bv1n there are separations between asia and europe,that make it a continent
@Herra Kjartan california aint on another tectonic plate boo
Never once in my own free time did I think “maybe I should learn math for fun!”
Love Love love the way you style your videos
No construction on the canal itself ever began, but they did evict some people. They also were doing a shit ton of infrastructure construction (upgrading roads in the proposed canal area, etc) in preparation for the start of canal construction , when I was there in 2014
RealLifeLore: "Can you imagine even 10% of those deaths being acceptable to a modern construction company"
Qatar world cup contractors: ...
Yo wait, I didn't get it
@@dope42069 Many workers died during the construction of the Qatar 2022 World Cup Stadium
@@ariswati8454 thank you, I had no idea 💡 about this. Thanks again.
No one talks about this.
For China, human rights are not an issue. The same applies to some Middle Eastern countries. Maybe Qatar is gonna change its attitude because its reputation is also important. But China is another story, the Big Red Communist Monster is using its strategic and economic power for political reasons. We had enough of the Russians for 40 years and Western people cannon even imagine how people were beaten up in jails by Communist henchmen on the wrong side of the former Iron Curtain. And China is trying to play the same game with the rest of the world as Moscow did.
It would be so interesting to make a video pretending it did completed, and explore there how it affected the geographic areas and economies.
The Nicaragua canal: when greed and corruption of politicians run amok.
"Can you imagine 10 % of deaths being suitable for any modern construction company ? "
Qatar 2022 WC stadiums construction companies : Well,actually ...
but no Qataris died there and thts what matters to them.
@@prashr4075 I still dont get why they didnt have the World Cup taken from them after half of fifa got arrested.
A modern operation like this wouldn’t lose 0.1% of that number Let alone an astronomical 10%. The entire US mining operations of 2019 had 24 deaths, from 147,500 metal and non metal mines.
@@matthewhernandez8342 The way FIFA works is disgusting, the biggest corruption scandal of the Brazilian history occured during the construction of 2014 WC stadiums, then Brazil went bankrupt and many members of CBF and FIFA were involved in it. There were corruption scandals in 2010 and 2018 WC too
@@danh8302 america, 1,000 deaths (coal mining alone) every year between 1900 and 1945. 3000 deaths coal mining alone 1907. keeping in mind this is only coal mining. safety generally comes after lots of deaths
China: let’s build a can-
America: *no*
E l i t e M i n e c r a f t p l a y e r a canno
And that is the story of why China built the world's most expensive CANOE...
*Murica
*C* *A* *N* *N* *O*
China: why
America: *the sun is a deadly lazer*
$40B doesn’t seem that high in the context of Boston’s Big Dig costing $24.6B. And a canal adds direct and indirect economic value far beyond easing traffic in a large city. Then again, with a functioning canal in place, why do we economically need a second one?
The best solution is to quit being so greedy and build ships a normal size.
It's not about greed but efficiency. The bigger ships use less fuel per unit weight transported.
@@johnny_eth if your ship has to go all the way around a continent instead of through a canal, how efficient is it really?
Agreed
@@SShadyJess Since nobody here seems to have any numbers I'd rather trust the people making the decision to use bigger ships, if only because their incentive is clearly profit, and it profits them to have higher fuel efficiency. Unless you're suggesting there's some kind of weird conspiracy to not use the canal?
Im from Nicaragua and here, the population dont like the idea of the canal, because the project will destroy the hydrograpy of my country, here, people think that the canal its a joke to the soberany.
China si the owner of your country
China needs to be stopped now
Si fueran capaces posiblemente terminarían cavando todo el país.
No lo miran como un territorio habitado si no como un punto estratégico que les permita controlar todo
Plus China basically gonna make your country in debt with the Belt and Road Initiative if they can pay China back they aren't doing this for a charity
@@somecallmeelvis belt and road does not include American countries bro
I misread “Nicaragua” as “Nigeria” in the title, and was really confused as to why and how a canal would be built through Nigeria.
Blah b I’m expecting mine in July
Isn't it so nice of them? I just paid 500,000 rupees as transaction fees. Hail Prince of Nigeria!
LAKE TITICACA! NIGERIA!!! AQUA!!! FOR MY BUNGHOLE!!!
That offensive for nicaragüans as me.
just dig into the coastline and make a loop de loop in the interior before going back out again
Cornelius Vanderbilt transported much of the heavy equipment and passengers from New York to San Francisco through Nicaragua during the California Gold Rush. Vanderbilt build a railroad through Nicaragua to accomplish this. He eventually sold his ships and invested in railroads prior to the Civil War.
With the use of standard shipping containers, automated loading and unloading, and nuclear powered trains, transporting cargo over land between ships could be just as cost efficient as a waiting in line for passage through busy canal systems.
There's no way that a Nicaragua canal would cost "only" $40 billion to build. $80 billion would be a crazy lowball estimate.
RealLifeLore back in the 1900's:
The Insane American Plan to build a Canal Through Panama
*French plan. The french company that dug the Suez canal wanted to do a encore and started digging the Panama canal. Digging Panama turned out to be significantly more difficult and more expensive than Suez. The Suez company went bankrupt over it and the USA bought the land and finished the job for military purposes.
It wasn´t originally an plan from the US, the Brittish and French tried to build it first
French plan
50th like!
Jasper except now it’s an oppressive, anti-democratic, anti-freedom, regime: the Chinese Communist Party government. This is the regime responsible for allowing COVID-19 to escape into the world because of their negligence in allowing unregulated wet markets, and irresponsible actions in censoring doctors and journalists that were trying to warn everyone about COVID19.
Funny how this just got recommended after the evergreen incident
or their video about it gwtting stuck and un stuck and its effect on global trade and stuff
I think if you look this has been one of the long term Chinese funded infrastructure projects pushed by PRC to influence Third World nations desperately in need of infusions of cash to their economies. The Thailand canal was another and a Trans African railroad project is also proposed but is less likely to happen given regional conflicts
Haaaa
When you click on an article about the Suez Canal then that gets fed into CZcams’s algorithm
The Evergreen incident was a act of sabotage by the "QUAD" -US, Japan , India, Australia and UK ( the UK queen is the head of Australia)
They are planning a global war against China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia and Africa ( including Egypt)
2:10 That's the danger the roads offer, mosquitos and jaguars.... Sure hahaha
What about the Monroe Doctrine?
“The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas. It argued that any intervention in the politics of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the United States.”
You say that like its a good thing? The Monroe doctrine was pure colonialism. All we do is mess with south America for our own gains. And Not that I want China in there but its not a European country. Everyone just needs to leave the countries alone.
@@writerconsidered My question is, how much fun would you expect the communist Chinese to bring to the neighborhood?
The Monroe doctrine speaks of any foreign power! So it does speak of China.
Chief: **Raises hand**
RealLIfeLore: "yes chief"
Chief: "why don't they just make the panama canal bigger so it can handle modern cargo ships?"
Chief well you see it would just be cheaper and easier to make a brand new canal that has slightly more width and is more than twice as long as the old canal I guess
Yet another dumb complex, expensive catastrophic idea solved by a very simple logistical one
Well, as we see at 7:05, the Panama Canal did undertake such an expansion on its own,
But before they did, the big reason a Chinese company would attempt to build a new one
Is because they wouldn't be able to make as much money on a canal that others primarily own.
A bigger canal closer to the US, though riskier, would have the potential for insane financial income.
Uh what chief?
Part of China's plan to dominate the world.
Summary: A great sounding idea, a terrible logistical reality
Reality is often dissapointing
Literally just widen the panama canal...
FloofyMomo it has too much traffic going through it, it’d cost panama an absurd amount of money to do it.
@@kehlanakareem9319 they alredy widened the canal once a decade ago. it took them like a decade
Truth hurts bruh
Magikazam
Really good video!
Thank You for this nice Video. It was really very Informative & Nice. Thank You.
This was the original plan for the canal before Panama. They stopped the plan because of a nearby volcano that may erupt sometime in the future blocking the canal so they moved it to Panama
It wasn’t just the volcanos the US had bought the rights from the French in Panama by then. Even tho they already had control of Nicaragua and it’s government by then all the way to 1933. A lot of ppl thought Nicaragua was better option cause it was cheaper and nature basically had already carved out a natural river system they could use
volcano is not a problem, those Chinese could simply blow it up, prolem solved.
The change was purely political, Nicaragua always made more sense than Panama.
@@russellmcfarling7498 for the rivers ?
You let out a few facts.'Panama" was province of Colombia.The Colombians refused to sell it to the U.S . So the US organised a rebellion in the region and set up a puppet state which sold the future canal zone to the US ,thereby cutting their new "country" in two.
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RealLifeLore: “Boats don’t really travel through land” Ottomans during siege of Constantinople 1453: “Are we a joke to you?”
Bama | The B Factor underrated commment
@S K Agreed.
@@athirkell Why the heck would they bring it to a city where they cannot use it?
BEST. SIEGE. EVER...
As someone who is 1/2 colombian and Nicaraguan born in nyc, I was literally about to have a heart attack, cause the insane idea on my father's country is unthinkable!
But so glad I never came to pass. Even though that 250k jobs missed out on, the destruction of their own country isn't worth the cost.
It could lift many out of poverty like it did in Panama. I for one am sad it didn't happen
China - 'Hey Nicaragua, how about we build a canal going through your country, we'll even give you some free money too.'
Nicaragua - 'Hey that sounds really kind of you.'
China - 'No problem dude, just sign your country over to us for the next 100 years.'
CCP empire building
Mexico is upgrading its ports, building gas and oil pipes, highways and upgrading the railroad route to move merchandise by unloading on one side and loading at the other side on another boat to compete with the panama canal. China wanted in but the mexican goverment refused and the president said it will be financed by mexican investors only but its likely that Blackrock and others will be involved since Mexico is much more inclined to deal with western investors than Chinese.
Y dosent Mexico build ther own canel .at suthern border wd b Maga income to ther economy
@Robb Skipper Every single project around the world has some form of corruption. This looks like a good project with little corruption so I think this will benefit Mexico a whole lot.
I don't think it is to compete with the panama canal I think the panama canal is just not big enough to take that many ships also this will not only support international shipping but the national one as well. This is going to be very strategic for the growth of Mexico.
@Robb Skipper I may be wrong but I don't think China is involved in this. This is something that will benefit Mexico for many decades they just need to be careful and don't privatize it like they done with many other things so the profits can actually go to the Mexican people and not to some foreign corporation.
@Robb Skipper I don't think Mexico needs to only worry about China. Most greedy corporations are not only from China they are from Canada, US, and Europe. And it's not only in Mexico but all of latin america but Mexico has the most natural resources so they concentrate on Mexico. Corruption in Mexico is good for Canada, US, and European businesses because they can easily buy out the politicians but once China started to try to get in on the party then it's " Mexico, you can't be that corrupt!" Mexico needs to nationalize their oil, lithium, silver, gold. They are so rich in natural resources there is no excuse not to be a first world country. But again, most of those businesses that bribe mexican politicians are from countries like US, Canada, and Europe. All those countries love Mexico being corrupt, they just don't want Mexico to allow China in on the party.
Attach wings and fly ships across the continent!
Then you might as well make a plane that big, instead of attaching wings to ships
sounds like a plane but with extra steps
A plane that big would consume LOADS of fuel.
@@user-lh2hx5xf4e so would a ship with wings attached
Big brain
“Boats don’t really travel on land”
Siege of Constantinople: I’m a joke to you ?
Nice video!
haha seeing the EVERGREEN name -now- on a ship going through a canal is very funny now
edit: i know the ship's name is evergiven, but the names of evergreen's ships are written in smaller letters, near the bow and the stern
the most notable aspect is the huge EVERGREEN on the side of the hull, and the colour
and oh look the ever given and this specific ship share these two features
thanks for reading skr
LOL IKRR
the ship that got stuck was "ever given"
ship wasn't called evergreen
Evergreen is a company they have thousands of canal crossing each year
You must be laughing at the dumbest things
Meanwhile in another universe: "The Insane American Plan to build a Canal across Panama."
No
@@eyyy2271 Yes
@@eyyy2271 Yes
Chinese bot
@cnfmh ycfmh Now this, I want to see a video on
Why is that an insane idea ??? Before the US built the Panama canal, they were initially going to built it there in the same place in Nicaragua !!!
Why didn't they choose Costa Rica, is a thinner country geographically?
@@miguelbarrero5572 , politics - Columbia wanted no part of it so the American goobermint/CIA started a revolt in the province of Panama and won their independence so the US could build it's canal .
You change the flow of the ocean is way worse than changing the course of a river will be just as catastrophic
I'm from Costa Rica, I'm so glad this never happened. More Nicaraguans would've been displaced and the environmental disasters would've been massive.
Now your country will be poor longer.
In my younger freer days I took many trips to Costa Rica and surrounding areas, including an incredibly magical trip to Lake Nicaragua and Ometepe. When I read about this insane plan I was also so dismayed at this crazy idea and for losing such a treasure to the future.
@@TheMrPeteChannel doing buisness with china rarley makes the average citizen of the target nation wealthier my man.
@@TheMrPeteChannel why would costa rica become wealthier because of a canal built in Nicaragua? if anything both countries would become poorer because Costa Rica would have to deal with even more Nicaraguan refugees than it does now and Nicaragua would get no monetary benefit from the canal for 100 years and would also have a lot of displaced, unemployed people to take care of.
Friendly correction, "displaced" (display) is to show something. Displayed means you showed something. Good day.
Every 60 seconds in Nicaragua, a minute passes
:( here take my money
Im from nicaragua, and i confirm this
Ah yes, the dream of a sea level canal wide enough for super max tankers to pass in opposite directions. "Sounded like a nice idea at the time".
I am Scottish. I learned about the Darien Project in school - beginning of the 18th century. If you don't know the details of this disaster, I urge you to Google or Wikipedia it.
A plan, mind you, that would have not only been pointless, but destroyed the country further than already is considering with the natives and geography. At least with Panama it makes sense.
Seems native population hinder economic progress. Guess they would rather stay poor.
Luis M than be relocated and made to watch a significant portion of your country get ravaged? Progress be damned if it means that.
Luis M just a question. Why does progress have to come at the expense of anyone? Why does everything have to be a certain way? We don’t need to risk everything to get what we need. Plus there’s no guarantee that this plan would even work the way it was intended. Not to mention how much money would be spent on trying to reallocate people being moved and quelling any revolts in the region. This just sounds like another plan where a foreign power is trying to passively subjugate another country by using them to their advantage without any regard to the native population or environmental resources in the name of profit.
"Dangerous animals like 'Jag-wires' "
Jag wires are really dangerous one almost killed me while i was walking.
Quaqwires
That’s just the normal American pronunciation of the word...
Yeah its like a jaguar but it has a monocle, cane and top hat
Try these on....
Niche: the ecological concept....pronounced “Nitch” or “Neesh”? We will know from where you received your biological education in how you pronounce this ecological concept.
Or how about this one.
The scientific name:Eucalyptus pronounced “U Caly P Tus” meaning without calyx. Why is it pronounced “U Ka lip tus”?
North American large Bovine of the plains. Buffalo or Bison? How do you know? What’s the difference? Buffalo horns come out of center of head and are large. Think Cape buffalo or water buffalo. The bovine of the North American plains is a Bison. Horns are small and come out of side of head.
Now you know.
You know, there was always a fourth option for sending a shit ton of goods across the US... try a freight train.
This would irreparably pollute the largest lake in Central America. Not to mention eventually turning it into a salt water lake.
Chinese imperialism moment
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The environmental disaster would come way before an oil tanker ever spilled, the salt would kill all of the fresh water marine life and will result in a chain of events leading in a complete ecological disaster way before any oil even touches it.
So what?
mubpfc so what!? People rely on that fresh water.
No salt would get into Lake Nicaragua; the whole lake is above sea level, so there would be locks on either end.
@@mubpfc a smol price to pay for SaLvAtIoN. I didnt even think about the ecological impacts tbh
so what you can stop the mighty money ?
40 billions is just a rough estimate. The actual costs will always be higher due to difficult situations. As a result they will run out of funds and the project will dragged on for years or they may ended up abandoned the project all together
There are plans for a dry canal in Costa Rica. Cargo can get across the country in 3 hours after it gets unloaded. Still waiting for government to approve the project.
Nicaragua: _"Hey big boy, are you coming to dig me that deep and wide canal you want so much?"_
China: *"New phone, who dis?"*
My aunt and uncle told me that the Chinese government did not want Nicaraguan workers. So Nicaraguan people did revolt and cause lots of damage to all the equipment and Chinese imports.
@@normaeunicechavarria4101 bhahahahahha
@@normaeunicechavarria4101 I don't know about Nicaragua, but from VLogs I see Chinese construction companies in Africa usually hire local workers because the pays could be much lower than for Chinese (since Chinese workers go by Chinese domestic standards). I'm sure in the end they would have to hire Nicaraguan workers to justify the costs.
@@momoware You sure ad projects like the Belt Road end up using mostly all Chinese Nationals to build then local workers and also employs mostly all Chinese Nationals to work in the new ports or train hub or in another case sell residents areas that were build to Chinese Nationals than to local buyers.
This is usually done like this as China is trying to build towards its Economic Imperialism goal so it could compete with the west.
@@momoware but the Chinese employers treat the African workers bad! The new slavery China is doing in Africa!
A Canal through Nicaragua AKA how to destroy an entire ecosystem, a guide by the PRC.
Are they doing any% or just the standard run?
how did you think Panama Canal was built in the first place?
Brazil does it all pretty good on their own. Just look at satellite pictures over just past 3 years not to mention 10. Look at what US does in different ways. Look at what France did to polynesia. BOOM
@@Brwnsugar oh yeah, we are really good at that indeed, here the art of taking native population's land never went out of fashion
British : let’s make a canal through Egypt
Americans : let’s make a canal through Panama
China : through Nicaragua!
This sounds really interesting and all, but Panama widened their canal.
The newly widened Panama Canal opened up on 26 June 2016 and has been meeting the needs of larger ships ever since!
Jeff Bezos could build 4 such canals just for the flex and still have change leftover for a take out and a taxi ride home.
Or just buy the taxi itself
Wealth is not the same as cash
I don't think you realized that to do this he would have to liquidate all of his assets, including Amazon, causing a huge economic shock that could send the world into a economic depression
He'd have to liquidate his assets
No he couldn't
Remember before the Panama Canal they proposed it through Nicaragua until they had a volcano erupt in Nicaragua 1898 that persuaded them to build the canal in Panama.
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Americans voted on the Mexican canal first.
Brilliant report 👍
Thank you...this was interesting.....keep an eye there.....there is more talk about it...
I wasn’t the only one wait for the ship loaded with evergreen container to crash right?
You are not alone
Yes you were 🙃
Somehow never entered my mind. But it did not effect me in anyway that I am aware of
This is what I call the Great Canal of China.
io Gaming LoL
Fun fact: there is a “great canal” in china
HAHAHA
@@ExplodingTNTamazingart LOLOL
io Gaming hilarious....zzzzz
That lake is also a huge part of Nicaragua tourist economy. And having hundreds of large ships floating through ?
The idea of building a canal across Nicaragua has been around for decades if not for a century. All it takes is commitment and money.
I mean, they did make a big ass Wall
Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun I’ve seen you before diotama.
Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun *walls
Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun Havaha it was another China tho and yeah, it's actually a series of walls built through centuries that eventually got connected.
A fairly large wall.
@Thot Destroyer must have been fuckin delicious
China: "They give us their property for 100 years, may as well giving it forever",
Britain: "hey, that's my trick"
USA: “Hey, that’s exactly what we are still doing in Panama right now. Nice”
@@royalidk2245
The USA gave the canal back to the Panamanians in 1977.
Actually, it was 99 years and Britain did honour the agreement (as did Portugal).
@@jqbogus no true 1999
Allen Jenkins They honoured the agreement because HK and Macau were not defendable. If China was weak, divided and in chaos, the Western powers would not have given them back, instead, they would probably annex HK and Macau, plus they would have annexed more land on top of that.
I guess Nicaragua won't mind having their whole country cut in half...
Mexico’s government has come out and said in 2022 they will build a train which will be in itself southern side, it will work like a Canal
2:11 The Jagwires is my favorite animal
assaf rotbach lol
Don't forget that famous car marque also! Shagwar
*RealLifeLore:* "Around 40,000 workers died during the construction of the Panama Canal... Can you imagine even 10% of those deaths being acceptable to a modern construction company?"
*Qatar World Cup 2022:* "Hold my beer."
Do you have a link or two to this? Thats crazy, then again the stories from brazil were too.
Im surprised we haven't heard about this shit pie the Chinese had to eat.
It was badly expressed below, but the great majority of the deaths were on an earlier French attempt. The US construction began by eliminating mosquitoes which reduced disease and constructing a railway to remove dirt and to stop it from burying workers.
@@alipalace6 Yes and when the US decided to finish the Panama Canal they went in there and drained all of the swamps, put in sanitation systems, quarantined anyone that was sick, put screens on all windows and doors and in a short time the mosquito and disease problems were mostly solved. Any later deaths were mostly of a construction accident type.
China 2020 "Hold my tea"
If they can build this canal through Nicaragua, they can build a road through the Darien Gap.
I guess China took that "crappy off brand" thing to heart