Why would anyone—any nation, any organization, any business or individual—trust a nation that would do something like this?
A major tourist attraction, Yuntai Falls, at the Yuntai Mountain scenic resort in China’s central Henan province, has been promoted as China’s “tallest uninterrupted waterfall” to its millions of yearly visitors. But this week a hiker’s video revealed that the falls are fed by a secret network of water pipes. In a statement, officials admitted that they added water to the cascade to improve the viewing experience for tourists. OK, technically the waterfall admitted that it was phony, as the statement said, “Depending on the season, I cannot guarantee that I am in my best condition whenever my friends come to see me.”
China’s culture was rendered permanently unethical by Mao and his buddies. As Hong Kong dissident Paliden Cheng memorably said, “Don’t trust China, China is asshole.” Indeed, it takes a true asshole nation to nurture a culture that would deliberately deceive tourists into thinking they are seeing a wonder of nature when it is really a cynical wonder of a corrupt system in action.
Yet, as I will always remember, our toadying national media went into indignation mode over anyone making the quite obvious and reasonable presumption that it was China’s perfidy that inflicted the Wuhan virus on the world. After all, such a conclusion was “racist.” Communism in all of its permutations relies on deception and lies to exist, and increasingly our own government—the border is secure, inflation has come down since 2020, Donald Trump’s prosecutions aren’t political, Joe Biden can solve Rubik’s Cube in record time—is emulating China. We are not fully conditioned yet, like China’s brainwashed public: imagine the uproar here if it were discovered that Yosemite’s Bridal Veil Falls is really just an elaborate special effect. The U.S. is moving in that direction, though.
A couple of related notes:
- In another appearance before a Congressional committee this week, ethics villain Dr. Anthony Fauci confirmed that the pandemic measures that resulted in shutting down the U.S. (wrecking the country’s businesses, employment and economy; crippling public education; giving aspiring dictators like Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer an opening to crush individual liberties; turning millions of American into fearful, mask-wearing hermits) were based on no valid data at all, though experts like him lectured us to “trust the science.”
- In the comments to the fake falls story, Washington Post readers managed to find a connection between the hidden water pipes and …Donald Trump! “Phony! Just like #45, DJT,” wrote one Stage 5 Trump Derangement victim. “China is just like trump. You have to assume that everything they say is a Lie,” wrote another. “This sounds like something trump would do lol”…“The Chinese are just practicing “alternative facts” the same way Kellyanne Conway did to explain away the lies from the Trump administration… The Chinese government and a wannabe dictator like Trump don’t have any remorse in lying to the public to achieve their goals.” There are many of these. Trump Derangement is clinical at this point, and WaPo has done its part to spread that contagion.
Ethics Alarms 
Willing suspension of disbelief. That pretty much describes the dutiful lefty’s obedience to all the insanity promulgated by the experts during the Covid fuck up. I remember as a twelve-year-old being horrified in the “submarine” ride at Disneyland. Number one, the “submarine” did not submerge, it simply rolled along the track it was on half-submerged in water. The only submerging occurred when we climbed down the stairs into the “submarine” to our seats next to the windows, which were, in fact, submerged below the surface of the water. Then I noticed the “coral” on the “coral reefs” we motored past was simply clumps of plastic flowers. This was “The Wonderful World of Disney” we’d, in part at least, traveled all the way across the country to see in real life rather than on TV? That was the best they could do?
To be fair, that ride was infamous as the one that had aged most poorly among the original attractions. I reacted the same way when I finally got to Anaheim, but the rest of the full day remains one of the few times in my life that a long-anticipated experience was even better than I expected. That ride is gone now. But it was considered boffo in 1956!—and that’s fascinating too.
Perhaps needless to say, I was completely unsophisticated and knew none of that background, until just now. We visited Knott’s Berry Farm as well, which was next door. As we walked through the parking lot, we came upon three guys standing up against the wall surrounding the park in full cowboy regalia, next to their horses and smoking cigarettes who, after looking at their watches, all tossed their cigs onto the ground, crushed them out with the soles of their cowboy boots, and mounted up. Whereupon a stagecoach and four appeared, roaring around the corner. The guys reared their horses and fired their guns wildly into the air, causing the stagecoach full of park guests to screech to a halt. The coach driver wanly tossed a canvas bag to the highway men before proceeding upon his way. The highwaymen, dismounted, leaned up against the wall and lit up, checking their watches. The good news is my aunts took me to Chavez Ravine, the then brand-new and truly spectacular Dodgers Stadium. And who was the starter that night for the Trolly Dodgers? None other than Sandy Kofax. Unfortunately, Sandy got shelled and only lasted two-thirds of an inning.
Am I the only one surprised that the hiker wasn’t found at the bottom of the ‘falls” in tragic accident soon after the video was posted?
I’d recommend anyone who hasn’t been to present day China go see for yourself. It’s eye-opening.
Give it time….
I actually quite enjoyed that ride, and was profoundly disappointed my 110 film didn’t develop the dark photos furiously snapped while riding. I was a big fan of Jules Verne and the look of the submarine matched the film spot on.
My illusion wasn’t shattered until later riding the skytram and seeing the track from above.
The boat safari ride was my disappointment. Shooting blanks at very obvious animatronics.
Like the band TLC said, Don’t Go Chasin’ Waterfalls.
I’m going to take a contrarian view on the falls. Assuming it’s truly a naturally occurring waterfall that has a diminished flow in dry periods, I really don’t see this as much different from adding or subtracting trees, bushes, flowers, & etc. from the surrounding landscape to enhance the usual public view. Looks like they didn’t try to hide the additional water source in its relatively remote location, and very few people’s experience was affected at all by the generally unseen pipe. People want to see what the falls looks like, not a long rock face with a dribble of water.
Yeah, “China is asshole” as far as the people in charge, but don’t imagine the general populace is unaware that the government is corrupt and untrustworthy. We’ve been to China a few times, one long tour, and a couple of visits to Shanghai. In private conversations, people in general were surprisingly frank about their leaders and the failures of communism. Comments would often start with an obligatory “Mao was a great man, but…”, and lead to stories about their personal family deprivations, like living in a one outhouse tenement and discovering with a bootleg TV that the rest of the world wasn’t poor like them, as they had been told. Individually, they’re about as capitalist as you can imagine, and not too big on the idea that people who don’t work hard for themselves and their family should be rewarded the same as those who do.
Our young guide on the long tour was college educated, likely a bit radical, and took some chances in where he took us, and what he showed and told us. He was also very knowledgeable in world history. When I happened to be alone with him for a minute and asked him where he would like to go on tour, thinking he might pick some other place with a long ancient history like Rome Or Greece, he immediately, without hesitation, replied “America! Everybody wants to go to America!”
it reminds me of the small Chinese zoo that exhibited a Tibetan Mastiff as an African lion.
Or this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-zoo-bear-man-suit-hangzhou/