It’s been described as a once-in-a-generation event. Floods have swamped large parts of Southern & Central China after the worst torrential rains in decades.
Many people are dead or missing. Whole villages are inundated and millions of people displaced.
The economic losses in dollars are believed to be in the billions.
Nearly two months of intense rains have swelled 433 rivers – with water in some reaching record levels.
The Chinese authorities have raised flood alerts and deployed soldiers to evacuate people and shore up levees.
Seasonal rains are common in China, but this year’s flooding has been exceptional and early.
Some environmentalists blame climate change. And others are raising concerns about the country’s dams.
Among them is the Three Gorges, that has been struggling with extreme flows of water.
The dam was once a source of great national pride.
But what impact do such megaprojects have on people and the environment?
Presenter: Laura Kyle
Guests
Dan Wang, analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Access China Service
Peter McCawley, associate Professor at the Australian National University and author of, ‘Banking on the Future of Asia and the Pacific’
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Sounds like the host and others are dissappointed the 3 gorges dam hasnt collapsed. Get a life, sickos.
Lets bomb china and have them pay for shipping and handling
will US stop bombing other countries?
The chinese guest did a good job ! Aljazeera ,thumbs down
Without these dams, there would be more floods. Actually, the last large scale flood in China is 1998. But before that, it is 1991. The time gap is 22 years vs 7 years. And in 1998, more developed regions like Jiangsu Province were impacted. The industrial production in Jiangsu continues as normal. So the dams contributed quite a lot in controlling the flood.
communist is evil
Keep on lying ccp
AL JAZEERA FAKE NEWS NETWORK
10% of China is underwater but the losses are 0.05% yea….right…
AAA P yep only 145 dead so far. CCP stats 🤦🏻♀️
unbelievable ! chinese are for china and china are for the ccp alone
There is a nuclear power station on the rivers edge in WuHan.
they should have thought of that earlier
@climate scientist Dam right, and I think there is another one along the Yangzte somewhere, but I can’t remember. I just hope if that dam breaks we don’t have another issue like in Japan with Fukushima.
@Tron Wars we won’t have another disaster. We will have many more meltdowns. You can’t have just one. China the gift that keeps on giving.
World famine is on its way. Mark my word. The world economy as you know it will never be the same.
@CellaDoor China could always import more soybeans rice corn etc
Call KARMA
Active blasting of some small dams is a common action of discharging water to prevent the Three Gorges dam from collapsing. Such a common method is critisized by falun gong propaganda that CCP deliberately harm the people. Shame on them.
Trump oughta nuke them commie bat eaters off the map
boring🤣.
China is being punished because of their behaviour
You could argue the same for the US 😛
China is now receiving a disaster of too much rain, water can not drain the city, and the dam has nothing to do with it.
china a developing country , seriously , come on , it has already developed and buiding islands in china sea ???? WTF ???
China is even considered a third world country
What you see are the few big cities.. A large chunk of China is still undeveloped.
@No-mid Dragunov so here in australia we can say same , , only cities around the edges , most inland undeveloped , , ???
but smart not a blitzgrieg , doing it slowly , taking over ports worldwide , and influence on universities world wide , , a finger in everything , here in australia , they buy heaps of land , and therefore own the water on that land and that flows through that land , , weird and it sucks
Nice to actually see a civil discussion on China
tnix88 LOL 😂 only bc you have a CCP mouthpiece and a dude that can’t compose a thought
I am not worry about this great nation and their leaders, I believe strongly the are the chosen nation, that why Allah with them, I know youre going to say, Chinese system atheist philosophy but Allah say ان الله ينظر مافي قلوبكم not صورنة
First create a fake topic, then spread the publicity, and then propose a solution out of nothing based on the fake topic. How bored are you? There’s nothing to do but lie?
Is not showing in china media
WORST REALITY by CCP criminals:… I was visiting Eastern Turkestan (xinjiang means in Mandarin CCP Hans tong “ New Territory”, as COLONIZED or STOLEN LANDS FROM OTHERS like Tibetans, Uighurs Mongolians Kazaks Tadjiks Russians (small community belong China)!
The situation is worst, because we never saw any harvested alive humans organs ON LIVE/CCTV on YouTube… records the CCP Hans criminals dont want to releaseits to Oversea public, scaring bad plubicity against Huawei Made in China!
East Turkestan Tibet Southern Mongolia are not part of WC (World China)!
Paris7Bella W … I was visiting Eastern Turkestan (xinjiang means in Mandarin CCP Hans tong “ New Territory”, as COLONIZED or STOLEN LANDS FROM OTHERS like Tibetans, Uighurs Mongolians Kazaks Tadjiks Russians (small community belong China)!
The situation is worst, because we never saw any harvested alive humans organs ON LIVE/CCTV on YouTube… record CCP Hans criminals dont want to release Oversea!
East Turkestan Tibet Southern Mongolia are not part of WC (World China)!
CCP chinese want only to make money stolen Petrol & Gas… Uighurs Kazakhs Tadjiks Tibetans Mongolians are not HUMANs even lower as animals to meat!
Boycott China
China is a threat to the world
never late to wake up against criminals agents belong CCP… untill it will too late!
You should wake up, Biggest criminal is Trump. Killingnover 100,000 people. You tired of winning yet?
don’t believe anything who spoke from beijing…
Junyu Wu AMÉN TO THAT!!!
China should go ahead with building Dams. As many as they can.
CCP is fighting with almost whole world with their own create problems covid19, own dreamed create boundaries.
The way they are making for boundaries…they think whole world was part of china since civilizations has started.
What is use of investing money in whole world when they are not capable of making their citizen safe,
@Lutz Bammer don’t use foul language. I dosent care about any specific organization or country. more than 15 countries have dispute with china. Means all are wrong and have false claim. i dont think japan Vietnamese Australia Indonesia Taiwan Philippines are calming any of chines territory. fighting for false claim would create regional peace in danger>
@Lutz Bammer No sensible person wants a war but the way china trying to claim and building infrastructure forcefully territory of Asian neighboring countries are afraid. How about Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Bhutan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore ? As per CCP all are lieying?
No body believe in trump. he is there or not not. but neighbors will be neighbors forever.
if you like them they are friends if you dont like them they are enemy at door step.
it’s ccp to decide what they want.
Expansionism thinking has no friend and future in this era.
everyone has modernizing their millilitre and economy base.
This competition could cause uncertainty in region. it could lead to a messy situation for humanity.
CCP holding water flow to Mekong and eaten by it.
eden finch yep! Water wars. They wanted water they got it. It’s about to be a sea.
a little too late for that
Lots of wisdom in the lords commandments to keep the sabbath day Holy, just like humans,Mother earth needs a day off too, not designed to operate 24/7.
Well, we just have to wait and see what’s gonna happen next.
Dams can be build if it help as long as the water is shared among countries along those rivers. I.e. Mekong.
The key is whether U under the dam! U did?
THIS STUPID DAM SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUCTED AT ALL
中国将坚定地走自己的发展道路，我们的敌人越是反对的事情就越是证明我们做的不错。
哈哈，强烈支持你的观点。
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Dam China do, dam China don’t
some people lack the most basic common sense
1) dams do not cause flooding, it regulates flooding by using the delayed water release, BUT it’s not a magic solution for flooding, it can only regulate floodings to a certain point.
2) the cause of the flooding is still primarily nature, nothing you can do about it. but there is still some human factors to it. such as cities built by the river have harden embankments, which do not absorb rising water.
farmlands around lakes also causes those areas to be less of a runoff area when flooding begins, so the solution is to turn farmlands by the river into marsh and mangroves, these will act like sponges during raining season, dams don’t even come into the equation in solving this issue.
kinda disappointed to see Aljazeera jumping on the Falungong anti-China and indian media bandwagon on dam issues.
btw should’ve invite some hydrology experts
I live near a dam. Every winter the water level behind the dam is lowered because the dam operators know that when spring arrives, water from the melting snow will flow into the reservoir. Similarly, the rainy season in southern China extends from April until July or even September ; so lower the water level during the winter in anticipation of the spring rains.
The power generated by the dam are paid by the farmers downstream now by losing all that they have
Dam is for hydroelectricity as well as for flood control. You are dumbass
The total rainfall this year is way >>>> the number in 1998 in China, and you can see how worse the situation was in 1998. Builiding dam helps a lot and will never end. So don’t be anti-intellectual like trump.
20 million people relocating to a different place in the world’s largest populated country , what a joke
no Chinese leaders have visited those disaster sites. they will sacrifice some places under the water because all properties are belong to Chinese government.
So…. Comparing this flood to 1998 flood based on GDP? Mmmk 🤔
Yellow 45 I know. All you can do is shake your head
I’m beginning to perceive dam envy…
At least they aren’t looting. That would be the main story if it was us.
Sheila Macpherson 👏👏👏👏😂lol so true.
Xi jumping is virus
All these CCP clowns claiming they know better…?
They don’t even have free press nor internet… soo how can you even be moderately informed?
Oh that’s right your a government shrill paid to be a troll
No. They have accepted that they will be dammed.
“In other news, Chris Tucker took a trip to China. When asked about the size of the country’s numerous water ways, Chris was heard yelling, ‘Daaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm’.” 😀
Go to the corner and sit there for 10 minutes and think about what you did 😛
Yes they will but will they actually follow those changes? Answer is no. Just like their laws of free religious practice yet that’s a lie. Money, corruption and leadership stupidity is what’s keeping ccp from changing
I find it interesting that they have a 100 year flood on the heals of confrontation with USA. Make weather control look possible! But hey 1 in a 100 odds plus the current political fire store 🤔
There’s no way to fix the dam. All they can do is to prepare for its ultimate collapse.
Laura looks like a man
Imagine the amount of construction jobs that could be created if the dam is destroyed? It could restore Chinese GDP growth in 2021
fearhungerpride ??? How? 3/4 of China will be a sea. They messed up the environment so badly that it’s one big muddy pit, nothing can be built there after that.
WHY WILL YOU NOT BELEAVE OR LIES!
Primary concern … Economic cost. 😔
Economic cost is nothing. Because people don’t have any value in China.
The Chinese woman would be telling a different story if she were anywhere but Beijing
lol, just what i was thinking lol
Actually, I was surprised by how candid she was despite being monitored by ‘minders’.
she will go missing if she says anything about the CCP. CCP Virus and Floods.
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It was never about flood control it was about blocking off all water to the countries relying on the Mekong. Water wars.
Edit “China wants to go green” LOL hilarious seeing as how they have no regard for life let alone the ecosystem. Oh the more she talks the worse it gets.
I PRAY ONE DAY THE CCP IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE *cough*NUREMBERG TRIALS, FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO THEIR PEOPLE, THE WORLD, AND ESPECIALLY THE UYGRS!!!!🙏
ignorant
Oh wow! 40 millions displaced and entire cities flooded but the effect will be ‘negligible’. She surely must be a senior fellow of Bull$hitting in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
No the CCP will not change it’s policy regarding their very “gorgeous” dams it’s not good for the world image. and if they’re going to rehab it… they’ll just look at it the hard way and turn their backs muttering “let it break” my pockets are full…
Xi Jin Ping, you want the South China Sea? Here is your own backyard of the South China Sea. No Nine dash lines, it’s all your to keep
she looks like it soured in her mouth-the truth, if she wasnt in china -she would sing a different tune
Comparing Aceh’s economy with China is absurd. China’s economy is huge compared to Aceh and any major disaster will definitely affect China’s economy. At present, with so many issues including trade with the US, is already putting strain in China’s economy. A 3 gorges disaster will destroy its economy. Hard to admit because so many innocent chinese will be affected and will suffer but it seems, right now, it is the only way for a change in China and the demise of CCP.
She is lying though her teeth
Tyler Haknuman , she tells the truth and it hurts the Chinese Communist Party.
Fake news ccp mouthpiece
She’s is struggling to make it sound like she really believes what she is saying. Nice try darlin, but most of us now can spot a phoney. Just Sayin!!!
Not everybody can spot a phoney.
Chop Chop CB Shop
No chance if they listen to Main Stream Media.
@7richardt7 Yes! you’re better off listening to fringe outlets.
Chop Chop CB Shop
Not only listen but always question and seek the FACTS.
This new lake china is impressively huge
Is it climate change or is somebody weaponizing the weather?
asking someone in beijing to talk about problems in china is like asking queen elizabeth if she thinks inbreeding is wrong
Load of bunk, right out of the CCP playbook. China is all about appearances. China is a textbook example of how not to manage a watershed. No consideration given to the people, the environment, or future impacts. So sad.
One of the reasons the Three Gorges Dam was the frequent floorings in the long History of China. If the Dam held it would add a feather on the hat for China ; if not China would have to deal with this natural disaster the best ways as it has done so in the past. There will be great loss in human and financial terms. China will suffer and will survive. With the warming of the global climate, China is not alone in dealing with the extreme weather as we have witnessed in other parts of the world. The survival of the human race is at stake.
The Almighty!!! is the control of all things that is created on the planet, he’s in control of all things, nature and mankind !!
Covid makes us have bad economy, kids not going to school.. But we still have good water.. That is much more difficult right.. For days like that.. Woww. Its must be soooo hard.. Thank for clean water and good nature we still have
YOU ARE TALKING FOOLISH
YAH IS IN CHARGE
BOW DOWN !!!
STOP THIS FOOLISHNESS
These situation cause by both human and nature than become powerful. But human can start over. It is too much destruction for human to bear of.
she is probably from the propaganda department, her rhetoric is very similar to Xijinping’s
China’s system of government is worthless if laws are or are not used. All data is false, nothing can be believed. Opinions are skewed by coercion and threats, real and imagined. Individuals do not matter, nor does the publics welfare. The communist idealog is ingrained into China to such an extent now, that China can NOT change. Communism has become a cultural problem.
The communist should learn from the Aral Sea.
Welcome in The Sea World
CHINA MADE AN ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS, NOW,,,MOTHER NATURE,S MAKING ARTIFICIAL SEAS AT MAINLAND CHINA, THAT 3 DAMS WILL COLLAPSED, ITS EITHER CAUSED BY WATER PREASSURED OR U,S, WILL BOMBED IT IF WAR ERUPTS, AND THATS FOR SURE !!! NO ONE CAN TELL TO BECOME AN ENEMY OF AMERICA
38 million good reasons to get reed of the CCP.
Kindly ask her about people who live along Maekong river ???????????????
China robed stealing water from Mae Kong river as well as upset eco systems along the river
Stop the thief to running around on this planet
The Chinese topographers misjudged the calculations of the level of the three gorge, since when the water level rises, all the adjacent cities are flooded, that is another of the failures of that dam
How could they dear tempt god! Now you must pay just make sure them P5’s get out and the rest is history for all I care!
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It is not the durability or weakness of something that is made by man. Everything is under the power of God who can break the unbreakable and can stabilize sometinh that is weak and breakable to save lives. If there is something to change ,it is our ways and the art of how we deal with things and how we treat other people. We should please God in all our ways, for us to be able to experience God’s presence and suppor by our faith.We often forget God’s almighty power in bad times or in time of desasters and emmergency . The coming of natural Desasters can be controled by God. There is nothing impossible or difficult for God. He is always near , not only near,…. He is dwelling inside of us. It is our weaknesses and wickedness, our injustice and pride, cruelty and inhuman behaveours that separate us from God. Our unjust behaveour towards people , animals or things is like a thick wall we build that prevents us to achieve God’s mercy and support. This means , God is always ready to help us. By doing evil and harmful things to others, we are unawarely refusing God’s help. Not our loving God, but we ourselves are the ones distancing from God everytime we do evil. What if we do not believr in God? What if we believe in false God ….. god that does not react, lifeless and cannot hear us? Do you have god who answers prayer? Call Him now to help you ! We have Jesus Christ. If your god does not react, why not try Jesus? Many of us experience His presence and support . Just try and you will not be disappointed. By : josie bernales.
this analyst don’t do her research she’s lying just like the Covid that said less people are killed but in reality the death in CCP virus is tallied to USA & Iran way to high, then the flooding accessment is way to high off outside of the roof
When was this video refering to was it this year?this decade ¿
That Chinese women talks only about the benefits and developments from the damming activities for China ignoring all those suffering downstream countries. Typical selfish greedy China.
This is a sign from God!!!
Mr. Xi must stop his brutalities against the minorities in china, especially against Uighurs.
China constructed 11 giant dams on Mekong River, causing severe drought and saline intrusion in the lower basin.
IT is now 12/09/2021 1year & 2 months later and NOTHING has been done by the ccp except to secretly open dams or blow up reservoirs
China dams much water. Make much mud. China flows into “china sea”. No more china. 干CCP. 🔖