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Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall

A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself.

A hiker posted a video that showed the flow of water from Yuntai Mountain Waterfall - billed as China’s tallest uninterrupted waterfall - was coming from a pipe built high into the rock face.

The clip has been liked more than 70,000 times since it was first posted on Monday. Operators of the Yuntai tourism park said that they made the “small enhancement” during the dry season so visitors would feel that their trip had been worthwhile.

“The one about how I went through all the hardship to the source of Yuntai Waterfall only to see a pipe,” the caption of the video posted by user “Farisvov” reads.

BeatTakeshi ,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

Fake nature is the pinnacle of capitalism. Yes I include China

prettybunnys ,

China is really refining capitalism into its own new monster.

Idk who’s capitalism monster scares me the most now.

corsicanguppy ,

who’s capitalism monster

Indeed: who is capitalism monster, really?

Initially I thought you meant ‘whose’, but this is funnier.

Kaboom ,

Literally the government doing it. How is that capitalism?

Bertuccio ,

There is a vast resource of nearly all of humanity’s collective knowledge that you can tap to learn why a govt doing something doesn’t mean it’s not capitalism.

Squirrel ,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

Why use brain when can ask?

Kaboom ,

Does the govt hold a monopoly on violence? Then its not capitalism

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

The government does not hold a monopoly on violence. You can just start punching people and they can just start punching you back.

BaroqueInMind ,

It’s illegal to punch someone unprovoked, unless you are a cop; there is no legal repercussions for law enforcement to hit you in your sexy face. So no, the monopoly still remains with the government.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

It’s illegal to punch someone unprovoked, unless you are a cop

It’s illegal when a cop does it, too. Although enforcement is scattershot at best. Spousal abuse statistics confirm as much.

there is no legal repercussions for law enforcement to hit you in your sexy face

Sizeable civil legal settlements suggest otherwise.

Feathercrown ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3d86b32-556a-4de7-b430-c5fcc4c8765e.webp

Bertuccio ,

“What does error code XYZ mean on my 40 year old limited run old-tech device from a company that stopped existing 39 years ago and never made a manual”

Vs

“Is Earth round”

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Let’s try it with this post

Oh wow look at that an answer

Clicking on the link even gives you more answer!

BeatTakeshi ,
@BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world avatar

CCP is just a business. The richest by design of course

AngryCommieKender ,

Dude Tencent owns CCP now… Oh not that CCP…

corsicanguppy ,

Literally

There are other adverbs.

GBU_28 ,

He literally doesn’t know them

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a figurative misunderstanding

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

But it’s being used correctly for a change!

splonglo ,

Same people.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Capitalism is when bad things happen.

Croquette ,

The planet is literally on fire directly caused by capitalism.

The housing crisis is because houses are seen as an investment vehicle instead of a basic human right.

The inflation is caused by corporations squeezing the population as much as they can to get every little cent they can.

Everything capitalism touch withers. There isn’t much new innovation anymore, just mega corpos buying other companies to stop the competition and lock the market.

VirtualOdour ,

What gets me about the mentality is that they blame capitalism for everything they don’t like and somehow imagine that none of those things would exist in a different system - it feels like they’ve never really thought about the reality of any other system.

Why would people living under true real communism not want a pretty waterfall? Do workers stop wanting a nice day out when their employer is state run?

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

State Capitalism

a political system in which the state has control of production and the use of capital.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism

Kaboom ,

So communism by another name?

irreticent ,
@irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

No.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

No, it’s pretty distinct from communism, which is why it’s not called that

Rinox ,

Yes in the sense that all communist countries are state capitalism, no in the sense that it betrays the very ideology of communism.

If you think about it it’s very much the same structure as a big business, with the “boss” at the very top, the party being the shareholders and executives swallowing all the profits and at the bottom are all the workers getting the shaft.

The main differences with normal capitalism is that the state here has an army, police and a full monopoly, so the party can literally do whatever they want to whoever they want within China. They don’t play by the rules, they write the rules, ie, a capitalist wet dream.

Kaboom ,

If every time comminism is tried, it turns into one specific bad thing, then wouldnt that mean that communism is inherently flawed?

Rinox ,

Maybe ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Hadriscus ,

I don’t think so, no. If anything it shows it’s difficult to achieve.

skulblaka ,
@skulblaka@startrek.website avatar

If every time someone is born, they die, then wouldn’t that mean that life is inherently worthless?

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

True Communism has never been tried on a large scale. It’s always authoritarians calling themselves Communist.

But yes, it is flawed in that humans are too tribal for it to work on a large scale.

Kaboom ,

Did you really just a “not true communism”?

I swear tankies are a meme.

samus12345 , (edited )
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

I thought tankies are the ones who like the “not true communisms” of authoritarian countries. It seems to be becoming a general “person I disagree with” term nowadays. Do they usually say Communism is flawed?

Bertuccio , (edited )

Ignoring whatever semantic arguments about socialism and communism, it’s easier to just point out that statement isn’t true.

Employee-owned businesses are socialist - in the actual definition of socialism where capital is owned by the workers. They work fine, maybe even better than capitalist businesses.

Fire departments are socialist - in a slightly different definition where a non-capital resource is owned by a community. They definitely work better than the capitalist versions that used to exist.

The problem with saying anything communist always fails is that they only call it communism when it fails. When it succeeds they just call it something else.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Not necessarily, it could just mean that the vast majority of the time it would be legitimately implemented, a larger country that doesn’t like communism spends a lot of time and money interfering with it

Kaboom ,

Russia and China are plenty big.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

I wonder if there’s a reason why I said “the vast majority” and “legitimately implemented”

Nah I’m sure I only picked those words because they sound nice

Kaboom ,

If you cant survive with the support of china behind you, your system is shit

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

In this very thread, like six parent comments up, it was already established that China is not communist

Kaboom ,

And I stated that state capitalism is communism by another name.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

And I said you’re wrong, because it’s not. Let’s just agree that you’re wrong and stop wasting 1s and 0s

Objection ,

Yes I include China

Are you a Maoist, then?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Although- what would you consider fake nature? There is a wetland park that was artificially turned into a wetland after reclaiming farmland for it. But it’s also legitimately a wetland with all the native plants and animals that go with it and it serves the same sort of water filtration purpose of a real wetland.

So is it fake nature?

I am in no way a fan of capitalism, but let’s define terms here.

Shard ,

Someone’s gonna get jailed for revealing state secrets and embarrassing the party.

JoMiran ,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

According to the article, it’s something China does regularly to waterfalls and they don’t deny it.

Huangguoshu Waterfall, a famous tourist destination in the southwestern Guizhou province, has been helped by a water diversion project from a nearby dam since 2006 to maintain its flow during the dry season.

corsicanguppy ,

With a carefully-crafted explanation like that, it almost sounds like a positive.

JoMiran ,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

If it’s main value of the waterfall is tourism, and if the water is needed downstream anyway, why not start the water diversion before the waterfall? Ultimately, all China is doing is giving everyone a false sense of security by masking the impact climate change is having on them.

dariusj18 ,

Keeping the waterfall active would be conservation. I’m sure there would be an ecosystem around it.

freebee , (edited )

True. On the other hand if it’s in a situation where water can be scarce, it might cause a bit more water evapiration to send it down a waterfall instead of a pipe

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Ultimately, all China is doing is giving everyone a false sense of security

??? By turning a piece of infrastructure into a piece of scenic beauty ???

masking the impact climate change

China is ranked 20th globally in Net Zero emissions readiness and is exceeding its 2050 and 2060 benchmark targets. Its the world leader in nuclear energy construction, building half of all nuclear power plants in construction globally. Its the world leader in mass transit, having laid over 3000 km of new HSR since 2008. And its the world leader in NEV construction, leading the world in the phase out of ICE engines.

But they put a pipe up to the top of a waterfall in order to keep it running during dry months, so they’re not taking climate change seriously?

LongMember69 ,

Ranked 20th, but out of how many countries?

Well I pulled the full source: the 2021 Net Zero Readiness Report from KPMG.

KPMG evaluated 32 countries. Out of which China ranked 20th. Not terrible, but also not all that impressive with that context.

Hadriscus ,

I’m not wise on chinese climate, but there’s probably a dry season regardless of climate change

conditional_soup ,

This doesn’t seem all that awful to me. The waterfall isn’t fake, it’s just something they do in the dry season so visitors don’t feel like they wasted a trip. It’s not the choice I would make if I were running the park, but it doesn’t seem that bad to me.

Kecessa ,

If you go check a waterfall in the dry season and expect it to be pouring water like it was monsoon season, you deserve to be disappointed.

conditional_soup ,

I tend to agree with you, nature should be experienced as-is, imo. I just don’t think this is that terrible.

AbouBenAdhem ,

It can mislead visitors about the severity of climate change… and it can impact the local ecosystem, if there are organisms around the waterfall that depend on there being a dry season each year.

sudoreboot ,
@sudoreboot@slrpnk.net avatar

If it is dry due to climate change I don’t see how there is an eco-system built around the drought worth preserving.

AbouBenAdhem ,

Most likely the dry season is naturally occurring, but the length and severity are affected by climate change.

Mango ,

Lol this guy bought it.

antlion ,
@antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

There’s already a dam at Hetch Hetchy. All they need now is some pumps and pipes to bring more tourists to Yosemite Valley in Summer.

conditional_soup ,

I work near Yosemite, we don’t need one extra body there in the summer at all.

antlion ,
@antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Well at least all the international visitors wouldn’t be disappointed with the dry cliffs.

chiliedogg ,

When I was I Niagara they did the opposite. They’d divert water into pipes bypassing the falls and “turn down” the falls at night.

Wahots ,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

It feels kinda gross to me. Like painting mountains white to simulate glaciers at Glacier National Park for people that flew on super carbon intensive planes to take pictures of the painted mountains. The glaciers all melted out due to climate change.

46_and_2 ,

When they wrote this “promted explanation from the water body itself” I thought it was some funny wording for a water agency or sth, not that they’d actually attempt to word their answer as if it’s from the waterfall itself, lol.

The park later posted on behalf of the waterfall saying, “I didn’t expect to meet everyone this way”. “As a seasonal scenery I can’t guarantee that I will be in my most beautiful form everytime you come to see me,” it adds. “I made a small enhancement during the dry season only so I would look my best to meet my friends.”

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

So the waterfall itself installed a pipe? I know it’s trying to be whimsical, but that part makes so sense whatsoever even in that context.

sensiblepuffin ,
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world avatar

Don’t be ridiculous. It called one of its contractor friends to install the pipe for them.

Mango ,

Ha! Actually fake and gay!

Waterfalls cause rainbows.

Shardikprime ,

Literally this

Untrue and joyous

Mango ,

Joious

Shardikprime ,

You were expecting a JOJO reference, but it was me, DIO!

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I went to Niagara Falls last year and I was disappointed to find out that they could control the flow or even stop the flow of water going down the falls and sometimes did so in winter. But they also didn’t make a secret of it.

Shyfer ,

I had no idea. That is kinda disappointing lol

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It is, but they’re still really beautiful. The area is a big tourist trap, but the falls themselves are worth it.

Shyfer ,

I’d definitely still love to see it one day. And now at least that won’t catch me off guard lol.

Adalast ,

Only if you ignore WHY it has the ability to do that. The reason is the hydroelectric power plant, or more specifically the construction of the plant, required that they divert the falls for a couple years a LONG time ago. They have maintained the capacity to divert the flow of the river to ensure that they are able to perform maintenance on the plant and the various national park infrastructures around the falls. The seasonal diversions are usually to perform said maintenance as well as to protect parts of the power plant from freezing. It is actually one of the great engineering marvals of the early 20th century.

Tilgare ,

Thanks for the context - that’s fascinating.

Shyfer ,

Ya thanks for the interesting POV. I’ll try to look at it from that angle when I finally make it out over there.

ILikeBoobies ,

Why?

Shyfer ,

It’s hard to describe why, but you visit that kind of place to see the wonders of nature and all that. Still, I’ll keep in mind that other person’s comment about the great feat of engineering it required.

Silentiea ,
@Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Not even that it took a lot of work to make diversion possible, but also that what you’re seeing is, if anything, a slightly reduced version of the original, natural falls. The same river is going over the same spot it did originally, there is just infrastructure now that allows it to go elsewhere when the hydro dam that is also on the river needs maintenance.

Agent641 ,

They turned it off once to clear rubble underneath it so it looked more spectacular.

exanime ,

I don’t get why would that be disappointing?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Because you think you’re seeing a purely natural wonder but it turns out to be at least somewhat orchestrated.

It doesn’t take away the beauty of what you’re looking at, but it does take away some of the feeling behind that beauty if that makes sense.

The_Biggest_Cum ,

Because you think you’re seeing a purely natural wonder but it turns out to be at least somewhat orchestrated.

I mean, it is still a natural wonder, same as it was.

All we did was make it so we can move the water to one side so we can take a look / work on maintaining the natural wonder, it’s not like we dug out the channels and created those 3 waterfalls

The beauty of something shouldn’t be affected at all by the insanely hardcore engineering it takes to maintain said beauty. If it does for you I’d recommend therapy cuz literally every natural wonder will be ruined for you if that’s the case cuz they all get maintained

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Dude, you asked me why and I told you why. I’m sorry you don’t care for why I was mildly disappointed but that was still I was mildly disappointed.

Suggesting I need therapy for that is just rude and unnecessary.

exanime ,

How is it orchestrated? What you see is what nature did. The water can be controlled somewhat because of engineering but it doesn’t change the features of the fall as nature made it

I’m not arguing against you, just not getting your perspective (which I’m just trying to understand)

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

If you can turn off the falls whenever you want, I’d call that orchestrated.

exanime ,

I mean, they put lights on with colours at night… And there is a whole boulevard built around them so you can see them better

Would you call that orchestrated?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Yes?

exanime ,

Ok, I think I get your point now!

Cheers!

Shardikprime ,

Everything in china is fake part 3000

Hadriscus ,

Honestly that kind of phrase sounds like a remnant of the old, prejudice-clad world. Why continue with this ?

Shardikprime ,

Okay

Everything in china is fake except for the Uyghur genocide part 3001

echodot ,

Yeah they just have some credit. There’s also Taiwan that’s real, they care about that a lot.

Hadriscus ,

Is that supoosed to be a joke ?

TheBlue22 ,

Damn son, even waterfalls in China are fake? What isn’t fake in China?!

Roflmasterbigpimp ,
@Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world avatar

The Concentration Camps are real.

Shardikprime ,

Uyghur genocide

MisterFrog ,
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not saying china doesn’t have problems, but it’s this kind of attitude that sends us down the path of us vs them that I think is toxic and leads to nationalism.

I have no issue with people criticising things in other countries, just not be absolute about it.

There most certainly are many not fake things in China that are great. Friendly people, wonderful food, natural wonders (this and perhaps some others excepted, but still), beautiful villages etc.

Just as there are bad things too, historical and contemporary.

Only a sith deals in absolutes.

“Oh this is whack, the park authority/ Chinese government faking a waterfall? That’s pretty shit.” 👍 An opinion I think many could agree with and is a valid criticism.

“Everything in China is fake” 👎 No it isn’t.

VirtualOdour ,

Unfortunately lemmy is by and large pretty racist, and totally unable to handle any form of nuance. I don’t really know why people who consider themselves heroicly leftwing are like this but I think it’s because complexity is uncomfortable compared to just deciding you know it all and biewing the world as divided into teams of good vs evil.

TheBlue22 ,

I most meant it as a joke tbh

Cyberjin ,

Not surprising, everything is fake in China. Have even seen China using green paint on plants and mountains…

youtu.be/Cvc7VymDa4cyoutu.be/AynNsPs9i80

exanime ,

ehmmm, every city in every country I have heard of does something like this when an international event will take place.

Not saying the Chinese may not over do it… but this is common practice in the Western World as well

RaoulDook ,

Yep we all paint our dogs to look like pandas over here

echodot ,

Did you actually watch the videos?

They were spraying the trees green because they were dead. Elsewhere they might power wash ground, and maybe replace broken windows in abandoned buildings so they look new, possibly do some weeding, but they’re not painting trees because the trees are not dead. If the trees are dead you’ve got a serious issue.

exanime ,

Brazil painted over their slum neighborhoods… Venezuela used to hang flower pots on every lamp post… Canada labeled a bunch of buildings as “green sustainable energy”… etc

Again, I am not saying China is no overdoing it… but the pearl clutching tone of the video seemed silly to me

Objection ,

People will really jump on any random thing to bash China. I’ll give kudos to British state media that this constant deluge of insignificant nonsense makes it really hard to have any discussion about China that’s based on like, broad trends in history or economics.

Parks do water management. At Niagra Falls, for example, much of the water is used for power generation at night, but during the day more of it goes over the falls for the benefit of tourists. You’ve probably never heard about it, because it doesn’t matter. At all.

But make it about another tribe, about the outgroup, and suddenly it’s the most important thing in the world and proves everything we always suspected and blah blah blah. Go volunteer at your local park.

LordOfLocksley ,

Ok Tankie!

Objection ,

Being a tankie is when you don’t care about water management at a park on the opposite side of the world, even though your state hates their state.

echodot ,

As opposed to what you’re doing which is just apologizing for a corrupt government?

Objection ,

Contrary to popular belief, there’s actually nothing wrong with calling out bad arguments and illegitimate or irrelevant criticism of anything or anyone, regardless of what you think about the thing or person. I’ll apologize for whoever I please, in other words.

FordBeeblebrox ,

Last I checked, Buffalo wasn’t pumping water up the falls just to make it roll down through the turbines, but if you have legit sources showing otherwise I’d be most happy to see them comrade

Objection ,

Where did I claim they were? I believe what I said is “Parks do water management.” And beauty and tourism are concerns that they take into account. This is a non-story.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

They do control the amount of water that flows down the falls. I was there last year. They also come right out and say so.

FordBeeblebrox ,

Bit of a difference between a weir/hydroelectric dam and a pump that would take all the water from the turbines and send it right back up to the canucks, using the turbine energy.

Then again, maybe it would spur a new round of waterfall barrel daredevils if they knew their keys would just be churned up top like a bowling ball at a “natural wonder”

Hadriscus ,

Speak for yourself, as far as I’m concerned China has lost all credibility with this story. Faking a waterfall ? That’s grounds for economic sanctions

Objection ,

Xi Jinping reading about this story like

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c3080c1c-51b4-4696-a7c7-764399466f97.jpeg

Hadriscus ,

I expect chairman Xi’s resignation letter on my desk by 8

Jiggle_Physics ,

I mean, they already did that.

Objection ,

Are you a Maoist, then?

Jiggle_Physics ,

No, China’s current economy is not communist. Nothing to do with Mao, or what I think about communism personally.

Objection ,

I guess I’m just confused then. When China enacted economic reforms in the 80’s, there were people who opposed them and felt that these reforms entailed a right-wing deviation from communism. Those people were/are known as Maoist hardliners. You can see where I thought you might be one.

If you’re not that, then does that mean you do approve of those economic reforms? Perhaps I misunderstood, when you said China abandoned communism, did you mean it as a good thing, and you support China’s direction from a pro-capitalist standpoint?

If that’s not it, I give up. I’m afraid I’m at a loss what your ideology is or what you think about Chinese history or the country’s economic reforms. If you could explain it to me, I’d be quite grateful, I see a lot of people around here who appear to me to be Maoists, but when I ask if they are, they don’t answer or elaborate. It’s very confusing to me.

nomous ,

You should comment less and lurk moar and you’ll pick up the vibe.

Or just keep trying to corner people and wonder why they don’t want to engage with you.

Objection ,

I guess I don’t really operate on vibes too much when looking at geopolitics.

nomous ,

Ah one of those beep boop robot people unable to see any nuance that can only deal with absolutes. That’ll hold you back.

Objection ,

That doesn’t seem to describe me very well. Seems like a strange take. I would think that studying history and basing beliefs on evidence would lead one to arrive at a more nuanced understanding than going, “idk seems bad.”

nomous ,

I would think that studying history and basing beliefs on evidence would lead one to arrive at a more nuanced understanding than going, “idk seems bad.”

You’d think so but here we are, “beliefs” are based on “faith” and “evidence” is up for “interpretation.” A room full of people can read a story and all take something different from it, if we could all just study history and decide what the best course of action is, that’d be cool.

Objection , (edited )

“beliefs” are based on “faith” and “evidence” is up for “interpretation.”

No, they are not. I believe more of the earth’s surface is water than land. Is that belief based on faith? Is that evidence up for interpretation?

Some beliefs are based on faith and some evidence can be interpreted in multiple ways but that doesn’t mean that there’s no such thing as a rational, evidence-based belief.

A room full of people can read a story and all take something different from it, if we could all just study history and decide what the best course of action is, that’d be cool.

Yes, people disagree on things, but when they are grounded on evidence and reason, they can discuss them rationally and present reason or evidence that the other person might not be aware of, and possibly resolve the disagreement. If you just go off vibes, and someone else senses different vibes from you, then there’s nothing you can appeal to to convince them of your perspective.

KISSmyOSFeddit ,

Why do you need to know the other commenters ideology, their stance on China’s direction, history, and economic reforms, as well as on capitalism?
All they said was that China’s economy isn’t currently communist, which is true whether you like it or not.

Objection , (edited )

Because I’m trying to understand their perspective. I consider China to be communist in the sense that the people in charge are communists, the same sense that it was communist under Mao. They call themselves communists, they explain their reasons for doing things from the perspective of communist ideology, they teach Marxism in schools, etc.

To say that they are specifically no longer communist, when they claim to be, seems to be weighing in on what communism is and isn’t. Specifically, it seems to be taking the perspective that Mao’s leadership constituted “real” communism while Deng’s leadership constituted “fake” communism. As I am not a Maoist, I disagree with that perspective.

It’s strange to me that you think understanding someone’s stance on China’s economic reforms, the point in history where they allegedly abandoned communism, would be irrelevant to understanding the standard by which they consider China to have abandoned communism. What could be more relevant?

VirtualOdour ,

They don’t know anything about China’s government or its history, they’re simply combining their hate of capitalism with their hate of China - they’ve picked up a few wesponized talking points to allow them to talk like they know everything because admitting the whole thing is super complex and confusing makes them feel scared and lost in this big old world.

It’s also racism, communism and capitalism are western ideologies so they consider them valid, Chinese principles and reforms are foreign and worthless in their eyes - they simply can’t accept that they’re not playing the western way, the idea of a third thing is incomprehensible to them. It’s the same with Chinese tech, people want to belive all they can do is copy the west, I think partly it just feels weird trying to accept that even in some small way people are ahead of us.

Their electric cars for example are presented as a rudimentary version of American ev but the reality is they’re a product very well suited to China’s integrated transport network which allows easy and affordable train travel for long distance and commuter transit. Small last-mile and runaround focused EV works in China because that’s how they planned for their transit system to work, they’re flowing a series of five year plans which lay out the shape and direction of their economy with the goal of benefitting the people. It’s a centrally planned economy working through a complex series of committees and congresses. Of course that’s communism, anyone that says it isn’t is just being weird.

Objection ,

Thank you, yes. It’s pure chauvanism and falls apart easily under examination, which seems to be why they always disappear so quickly.

1.4 billion people live in China and I’d venture to say that a large chunk of them consider themselves to be communist and the party to be communist. That is easily the majority view of self-indentifying communists worldwide. But surely, they think, as a Westerner, I’m the authority on what communism is and not these backwards Chinese.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

The video was posted on Weibo by a hiker, which suggests the hiker is Chinese. So blame the Chinese for making this known since they then viewed and shared it thousands of times.

Objection ,

You say “thousands” as if that’s a lot. If some Chinese people want to talk about a park’s water management, I don’t mind. But when Westerners take some random trivial thing like this and use it to fuel a narrative that “China is a country full of lies,” or whatever, that’s an entirely different animal. This is a local issue, not an excuse for chauvanists to be chauvanist.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, I do call 70,000 shares a lot. That’s shares, not views. I’m not sure why you don’t.

And it’s still the Chinese people making a big deal about this.

Objection , (edited )

Really? Because what I’m seeing is an article from the British Broadcasting Channel and a thread full of people using this story to make sweeping generalizations about China, in English. I suppose it’s possible, but I gotta say I find it a little hard to believe that this thread is full of Chinese nationals, as you’re claiming.

samus12345 ,
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this thread is full of Chinese nationals, as you’re claiming.

Where was that claimed?

Objection ,

Right here?

And it’s still the Chinese people making a big deal about this.

I’m talking about what people in this thread are saying, and in response they said it’s Chinese people making a big deal about it, so naturally that would imply that this thread is full of primarily Chinese people.

samus12345 ,
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They said it’s Chinese people IN CHINA making a big deal about it, which is what this article is about.

Objection , (edited )

And I’m fine with that. What I’m less fine with are people in this thread, about a BBC article, exploiting a local issue about water management to paint an entire country as being full of liars. If Chinese people want to make a big deal out of it, that’s their business.

Nobody in this thread cares about it for the story itself. They care about it because it gives them an excuse to push their agenda.

samus12345 ,
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Fair, but Flying Squid didn’t say anything negative about China. He just said that it was Chinese people who made this incident known internationally.

Objection ,

I never said that he did.

I don’t see how this point matters. Yes, Chinese people shared the story, because they cared about it. I still think it’s a non-issue personally, but people care about all sorts of things, and I’m sure I could find some celebrity gossip with a wider spread. Perfectly fine with all of that.

Then the BBC reports on it internationally, and people on here use it to spread a narrative that China is a nation full of liars. Am I repeating myself? I think I said that part already. That’s the only thing I’ve taken issue with. I fail to see how what you’re saying, that Chinese people originally shared the story, has anything to do with that.

samus12345 ,
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I fail to see how what you’re saying, that Chinese people originally shared the story, has anything to do with that.

It doesn’t really. The issue is that you incorrectly stated he claimed that it was Chinese nationals in this thread that made a big deal about the waterfall, which he did not.

Objection ,

I said that to make the point that what they said was irrelevant to what I said, unless this thread was full of Chinese people.

VirtualOdour ,

OK but putting that aside can we agree his other point is totally valid, prople in this thread using it to attack all China or all chinese are absurd, awful, and immoral?

samus12345 ,
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Yes.

lemmytellyousomething ,

Now that we know how to build a water fall from scratch, it’s just a matter of time until the world record of the highest water fall will be in Saudi Arabia or Quatar…

rmuk ,

“The world’s largest waterfall is fed by the world’s second-biggest pump. The world’s biggest pump is used for the air conditioning that keeps the surrounding forest at a pleasant 20°C cooler than natural temperatures.”

Adderbox76 ,

Farisov who? We, the chinese government, have never heard of, not has there every been a user by the name of Farisov… Please go on about your day.

Colour_me_triggered ,

So Chinese!

recapitated ,

This was not on my bingo card.

tagelthebagel ,

But the TOURISM!

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