Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "In-depth: 16 Tofu-Dreg High-Rise Apartments Tilt, Over 3000 People Urgently Evacuate" video.

No... the weather in China has a lot of typhoons... and you get a lot of rain. This is why you cannot build many very concrete things inside the PRC. Cos concrete uses and absorbs water. Traditionally, the old and traditional houses of China. They were built with porceilain. Just small nation. And then the rest could be built from woods. Wooden structures. So like Japan.. they built wooden structures.. but in later years, they found laquer. Which preserved the woods and that took even longer to degrade etc. Or in Europe.. they use stones. China traditionally just use mud as well. As in... they stomped mud in a dry patch. And built around that. This is why they were kind of like nomads.. keep running round the entire areas. (If you looked at some of the Tibetan structures.. they were nothing but mud huts. But very very high level ones.. and the entire area was sand storms.. but it kept them dry.. and alive.) China was great at building bridges, which avoided the floods and the typhoons. Just that, those old maps and techniques were thrown out and away.. and "modern nations" just disregarded that a lot. And some of the people disregard it.. is because... those were not their ancestors... So.. they refuse to accept history. (Cos their ancestors were probably the enemies.) But at the saying goes..."what is not broken, don't fix it".
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But The Netherlands took a long time to dredge up the soil and flattened the land, didn't they ? They reclaimed the land, and it took around 20 years, if I recall.... And then this gave it time to settle. But this video said it all..."too much, too fast, too soon".... Many things are done, cos of time... and there is nothing wrong with "if your father built this, then your son will build the next part". Nothing wrong with this at all. (China just have to find a way to feed people, while time goes by. )
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@FarfarawaySomewhere : It is so scary to see their high rises wobbling.. I never knew that it happened inside the PRC.. as more and more of their netizens throwing things online... I mean. This is very very scary. Oh my God. I have walked underneath high rises like the HSBC bank in HK.. and even in London... just besides the tall offices.. you could feel the strong air draft wafting across the ground ? I don't know if these people ever thought about those kind of wind's resonances as well.. They obviously have not checked that at all when they build it. And to be fair, they can't have that on record or to be able to simulate it.. since it's a new land. And each time you take out a building, you need to recheck again and again... Requalify requalify requalify, again and again and again and again....
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@kindGSL : There are 1.4 billion people.. For sure.. they have a strong militia somewhere... in fact, they have at least 10 regional militaries... etc etc. (And they are all "governors".... ) I bet they run an Imperial model. It isn't communism.
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@jan22150 : Well.. I live in an old house as well. Almost under a 100 years. And I did noticed slight cracks here, or there. And I deliberately do NOT buy "heavy" furnitures. And I patch up the cracks. And stopped major possible causes. So then I stopped there. I also have building insurances as well. Just in case of anything. SO.... I mean.. people do all of this, kind of expected, and kind of watch what happens etc. So... Just learn to live sympathetically with your environment, kind of helps. All of these work for China.. for the PRC.. it is nothing but political pulling and pushing. Cos somebody needs some position, and power somewhere. The more I read social media, the more I realised what is what ? So... Even the Japanese learned to live with limitations. i.e. They knew that they cannot have that much electricities. So therefore, their electronics are often quite low wattages. And as long as it achieves a mission. Then this is done. They just work more collaboratively together ? Whereas the opposite is true for us in the UK. We're often a "knock it down and rebuild from scratch" kind of people. But saying that, the newer methods are a lot more "safety conscious". But the old methods are also ergonomic and sustainable as well. i.e. Low sustainable housing, and not rely on a lot of electricities and machinaries to run etc.
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China should have learnt to know how to live with the water. The humidities. And how water affects the soil. And where in the land is safe to live and why etc. Chinese had always been river people. Fishes kept people alive.. And some even lived on boats. So... And then the rice paddie fields.. If they could create something as wonderful as an actual water system to let water settle and to grow rice. Then why can't they learn to live with water ? They didn't though... cos they used Western method on a chinese problem. Shouldn't have build a dam at all. The Three Gorge's Dam. If they reverse this now. Don't care how it was before. But if they knock things back down.. and readjust.. then.. there is still a future.
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This is why it was wrong of the PRC to have joined the WTO... cos this building is money. And now, where is this money going? You cannot even trust that this building is worth the money that it was supposed to. And this kind of project is everywhere in the PRC. So imagine how much of that money is lost ? Nobody would insure it. NObody would buy it.
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