China has suffered massively from floods, famine and civil war for thousands of years.
Their flooding problem is unique on the planet and a destructive force like no other.Imagine a Mississippi river that overflows every couple of years, moves hundreds of miles every few decades and never stops.
The book series "3 Body problem" is a metaphor for China's floods. Chinese know their geography requires a hydraulic culture to survive, it's just a question of having a competent one.
The CCP has brought sovereignty, peace, and prosperity to 1.4 billion Chinese.
https://x.com/i/status/2109633225819816217
"the 1855 avulsion moved the Yellow River’s outlet from south of the Shandong Peninsula (Yellow Sea) to the Bohai Gulf about 300 miles north, and compares that single event to the Mississippi somehow relocating from New Orleans across the American South to reach the Atlantic at St. Augustine, Florida (~600 miles).
The Yellow River is famous for this because of its enormous sediment load from the Loess Plateau (historically ~1–1.6 billion tons per year, far higher than the Mississippi’s ~0.2–0.3 billion tons). On the flat North China Plain the sediment settles, raising the bed until the river becomes an “above-ground” (suspended) river, often higher than the surrounding land. When levees fail, the water seeks a lower path and can abandon its channel.
~1,593 levee breaches/floods.
26 major course changes (some counts of ~6 especially large ones).
Outlets shifted between the Bohai Sea (north of Shandong) and the Yellow Sea/Huai system (south), distances of hundreds of miles/kilometers.
Chinese saying: it “breaches its banks twice in three years and changes course once in a century.”
In the last millennium one analysis found lower-course shifts roughly every ~25 years and breaches about once a year on average (higher in chaotic periods).
Delta/terminal channels were even more mobile: dozens of shifts (reports of >50 since 1855; roughly every decade in some modern periods before heavy engineering)."
Outlets shifted between the Bohai Sea (north of Shandong) and the Yellow Sea/Huai system (south), distances of hundreds of miles/kilometers.
Chinese saying: it “breaches its banks twice in three years and changes course once in a century.”
In the last millennium one analysis found lower-course shifts roughly every ~25 years and breaches about once a year on average (higher in chaotic periods).
Delta/terminal channels were even more mobile: dozens of shifts (reports of >50 since 1855; roughly every decade in some modern periods before heavy engineering)."
