Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "$28.3 Billion USD Three Gorges Dam Has Failed | 80 Cracks Found! What Does This Mean? (4)" video.

  1. It is no use... cos this is China... and as somebody of Chinese descent... I can tell you that... for a super wet country.. nobody trusts concrete. And the weather and climate is NOT the same as it is for the USA. So this is nonsensical for a start. In fact, what they should have done is actually to utilised a kind of metal dam... use a lot of actual porceilain too.. but then again, maybe the entire country does not have enough for what it needs? So... This is why... China, historically have always "worked with the Sky" so to speak.. which is to "redirect the flow" instead.. cos the pressures are too high. Unless you move an entire mountain or other, to be there..... otherwise, this is just.. it is not good. Doesn't matter how much concrete you throw at it.
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  2. Yeh but the world had to use your US dollars when you almost bankrupt. So yeh.. what do you think that prc is trying to do too ? When two mega countries try to outdo one another, the world suffers. You don't see most other countries trying to spend more than they could.... even the UK stopped building before we went bankrupt.
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  3.  @offgridcabinbelgium : Well.. then there is now the next phase of "maintenance"... that needs to happen then, doesn't it? So... it is still going to have to happen, somehow... So how come this is not part of an actual project, that the PRC borrows more from the IMF or the World Bank or other? Instead of doing what they do now ? And if they borrow this, and then let external finances or companies.. that is, foreign companies to bid for this... and then list those companies in the exchanges.... and then slowly to refinance or to finance it.... etc etc etc....
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  4. Ohhh.... is that why people are angry ???.....
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  5. It's hard to say either way since not everybody were as educated or indeed as well researched. Sure with such a high risk project, there are always gaps. This is why now.. it is most important to take responsibilities... is this why Europe and China are decoupling too ? Cos some German engineering went into this too ?.... it's so strange. And yet, prc now wants to build one belt one road infrastructures to balance back their books. It is better if they maintain their own reputation globally if they readjust and seriously fix this problem. Even if it means restructuring their debts to be issued around for the next 100 or 200 years.... in order to pay it off.
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  6.  @bay29 : You cannot really say that this is "corruption".... cos.. IF indeed the PRC had an actual Health & Safety law.. then going against this specific issue, is indeed, and could indeed be seen as an actual "corrupt against the H&S law"... but I am guessing that they don't have this anyway ? SO... therefore.. if indeed, they are a budget contrained issue, and situation, "at that time".... Going with their flow... instead of creating more of a budget deficit... is indeed the right way to monitor their own economy though. Isn't it ? Do you know, how much... vocals... they have against this specific project ? And did you know, how long it took them to derisk, and remove the death penalty? I used to think that, they should indeed bring back the death penalty... but I never knew that... actually, it used to be abused, so therefore removing this means actually... an actual better situation. I can just imagine, how frugal they must have to be... and if it was not for foreign overseas' chinese both buying, and also remitting money back home.. Then I don't think that they could even have pulled it off to this extent. I never knew this is what went on... Right now... I think the risk is higher... cos it seems that... the situation has now escalated into something else altogether. i.e. The control of the media, or the control of jobs and economy etc.... It isn't wrong per se... for China, to use their best resources to achieve their own objectives. Which is electronics. They can create better concrete now.. and hire more chemists to create better "fillers".. to backtrack and to mend this specific project. And if they need to use softwares to do stimulation now. Then that is their strengths, isn't it ? Utilise their best educated individuals... is the way to go, since they are already educated. Maybe they also need to reduce this meritocracy civil servant thing as well... and have some areas, as just small villages or more autonomous areas.. etc etc etc... Without impacting anything else. Use another regional currency if it helps etc. Help create mini 60-70 million "provinces" that acts like most European countries, with their own currency control, without such impacts.. etc etc.... That is how they should resolve things. IMHO. And they need to ring-fence these kind of capital projects. And make sure that it has its own controlled finances, and have a team of finance analysts that does the entire audits, from end-to-end etc. So that this can indeed be discussed as need be etc. They have so many people... The only reason originally why the PRC hit the mark in growth was because they had a lot of consultants too. So to put them down now, seems somewhat nonsensical... cos it was both US and UK consultants that entered into the chinese market etc. You cannot fight so many actual fires at the exact same time.
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  7. How can you "cure" concrete in China ? It is constantly wet... all of the time. Unless, you pre-made the items elsewhere and let them dry in an ultra hot climate say like in Australia... and then actually re-configure it back on land.. with careful manouvreing etc.... To slot and to fit back into place etc. In fact.. this is not a bad thing, as a project and relationships between Australia and China.... Cos then it would be cured in hot day light, and using less energy etc. This project was .. it was between Germany and China.. I think it was.. or at least they got involved. I don't get why other countries shouldn't be involved... using their best efforts or what they could do.
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  8.  @offgridcabinbelgium : Well... not always, and this is the typical biased thinking as well... to go slow... and to slowly release and rebuy back the money often and whatever... actually is a form of mechanism... that buys you time. Basically. So.... and as economics goes... this kind of slow fluctuation, helps anchor, the bigger messier.. fluctuation... The thinking of "either boom or bust" , is way way way too much... too fast. Too soon.
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  9.  @kudosjp2 : I am an overseas' bystanders... my dear. Not personally involved... and not really my speciality. But I do have many peers that went into civil engineering... same age group. Now I get why... and yet, so many high rises were built in this century.. but many probably were not involved in this biggest project of all.
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  10. No wonder so many overseas Chinese are civil engineers. But nobody goes and works on these projects or in HK. Lol.... I find that one weird. This is what happens when people play politics. They fight for money. Rather than do the right things. Very bad. What they should've done is to bring in all qualified individuals plus open a research arm. Plus outsource to global universities such as study projects etc. To exchange ideas etc. It is when conflicts of interest means a bad eventual outcome.
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  11.  @fabr5747  : Thank you for the clarification.... So it did get researched then. I didn't even know about this project at all.. until recent years.. and until an ex-colleague asked me about this one. I said "What Three Gorge's Dam?".... lol... I only UK and HK. lol... I didn't even have so much exposures to Chinese mainland news, OR articles.. at all. And not until some of the SE Asians coming into the UK too.. and sometimes mention this kind of thing. Why would I know this? Why should I know this ? lol. I just know that a lot of civil engineer students, were related to the high rise buildings for HK... or in SE Asia. I didn't even know about their actual excessive building either ! lol... What a small frog in a well, am I ? lol.... (I guess this might be due to the fact that, we ddin't have such access to different internet... cos I sure didn't have a nice 5G mobile phone before.. so I couldn't see half the news or articles from the SE Asia side.) And now.. we can.. lol... All those news are not even filtered... and it drags the WHOLE lot into the UK and Europe.. no wonder.... it's like the world went flat. Very flat. Not even filtered news any more. No wonder India blocked everything from China, and they are not impressed. lol...
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