Why China's real Geography Weakness is Water
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China has a massive water problem, which is slowly becoming its main weakness. This stems from two main reasons: The lack of sufficient water reserves for its huge population, and the increasing pollution of the existing ones. In this video we analyse how these two factors makes water China's main geography weakness and we try to see how China could find a solution for this weakness through the use of waterways transportation.
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Table of content:
00:00 China's first geography problem is the lack of freshwater
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07:22 First solution: construct new water reserves
09:19 Second problem: freshwater pollution
12:16 Second Solution: more efficient inland water transportation
13:38 Comparison between Mississippi and Yangtze river systems
16:21 Inland waterways are a sustainable transportation model for other countries
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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! â€
Wow, thank you so much Norbert. I'm glad that I hit the nail on the head there.
Isnât it obvious?
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
@@user-in5kc9eu8b 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.
@@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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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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.
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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.
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@@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.
Keep your imperialist wet dreams to yourself. The West needs to stop invading & murdering people.
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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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Very interesting documentary! Thanks. Didnât know about how extensive the waterways are in China.
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!
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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 TietĂȘ, all cargo is loaded into trucks and goes in a huge highway journey, passing through SĂŁo 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.
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? sekishouproduction@gmail.com
â@@Kamome163 Yes, I do think so, the TietĂȘ 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.
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â@@Kamome163 It would at a huge expense, locks on the ParanĂĄ 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.
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@@Joacazz Thanks for the comment! I guess it would make much more sense to build those along the ParanĂ basin. IIRC thatâs also where the big chunk of Brazilian agricultural economy is based at.
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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.
Yeah, I feel like this channel sacrifices too much of research quality as of late and doesnât go deep enough considering the vastness of geopolitics
That's a good point. I've made a video on it czcams.com/video/l5KXeFdpyaE/video.html
@@watershed8685 Did you even check the video bibliography?
@@Kamome163 I didnât and I donât mean to say you donât 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. Iâm 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 Russiaâs potential in river transport, in the end of this video you made it seem like they have a lot of it. No, they donât, 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 thereâs only so much you can put in a video. I just you know, expected just a bit more. Yeah, with fame come expectations. Thatâs just my feedback, you can ignore it as is your privilege.
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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. Thatâs a trade-off I had to make otherwise the video wouldâve been noticeably longer.
Gotcha. Thatâs 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 thereâs a link to a world bank work paper thatâs quite interesting. Thanks
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The US navigable waterway network is far larger than China's
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Donât know for sure, but heard that in China, the 40% that do have tap water generally wonât 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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I personally would like a video about the Sichuan basin in China & how Sichuan basin played an important role in Chinese history
the sad reality is the Dam holds the water when itâs dry season, release it when itâs wet
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.
Hey Edward, thanks for the comment! Could you link sources for the sediments in the NSP and â80% of groundwater is pollutedâ?
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.
someone really needs to stick this video in the faces of all those peter zeihan fanboys who think only the US has navigable waterways.
â@@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.
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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?
Water is the foundation of every civilization.
Imagine if the rio de la plata was conected to the amazon internally. That would be a powerfull network đ
I totally agree! And that would drastically helps Brazil overcoming its rough geography! We might do a video on thatđ€©
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Thank you for highlighting this issue and thats the precise reason why china is trying sp hard to capture arunachal pradesh.
Which makes the chinese poluting their rivers and streams insane.
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).
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 donât worry about them for godsakes we have plenty issues at home.
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
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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.
Good content, but the rotating maps add a level of distraction that is not needed. Otherwise, excellent.
No mention of weather modification? There are companies worldwide supplying precipitation made to order.
Great video, but the volume keeps coming in and out ever so slightly.
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.
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 youâre talking about. (Sometimes with technology, just because you can do something doesnât mean you should ! )