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Geography plays a very important role in the international game, for example, geographical location determines the strategic depth of a country, the distribution of natural resources is also affected by geography, geography also affects trade routes and transportation hubs, and militarily, the geopolitical environment determines a country's military deployment and strategic focus. Therefore, geography is actually very critical in the international game, in reality, we because of a diversion of the Yellow River, China lost about 1,400 square kilometers of land, so that the mainland suffered a big loss in the geopolitical game with South Korea.
As we all know, the current estuary of the Yellow River is located in the Yellow River Estuary Town of Dongying City, Shandong Province, which is at the confluence of the Bohai Sea and Laizhou Bay, combined with the geographical form of the Bohai Sea, forming a unique geographical scene of "Shenlong absorbing water", but from 1128 to 1855 for 747 years, the Yellow River repeatedly invaded the Surabaya and Huai River and entered the Yellow Sea, this phenomenon is called "invading Si and seizing Huai". Thus, for nearly 750 years, the Yellow River's estuary was not in Shandong and did not flow into the Bohai Sea, but moved to northern Jiangsu, where it flowed directly into the Yellow Sea between Haizhou Bay and Binhai.
As we all know, the Yellow River has carried a large amount of sediment since ancient times, therefore, after the Yellow River "seized the Si into the Huai", during the period when the Yellow River was injected into the Yellow Sea in northern Jiangsu, it naturally accumulated a large amount of sediment at the mouth of the sea, and for hundreds of years, it formed a Yellow River Delta with an area of about 9,000 square kilometers in the coastal areas of northern Jiangsu. This phenomenon not only greatly expanded the land area of northern Jiangsu, but also pushed the coastline of northern Jiangsu eastward by more than 100 kilometers, and in less than 30 years from 1677 to 1696 alone, the estuary of the Yellow River extended outward for 80 miles, and the speed of land reclamation was very amazing.
Geographically speaking, the formation of an expanding delta by the Yellow River in northern Jiangsu is far more beneficial to China than the formation of a delta in the Bohai Sea, because the northern Jiangsu region is located in the center of the Yellow Sea, and extending the coastline to the east is very conducive to China's control of the sea power and resource ownership of the Yellow Sea. But the formation of a delta in the Bohai Sea is equivalent to eating in your own bowl, which is meaningless, after all, the Bohai Sea is China's inland sea, and it is not clear that with the continuous expansion of the delta, it will also affect the Bohai Strait, but the Yellow River has suddenly "diverted its course to the north" after nearly 750 years of seizing Si and entering the Huai.
In the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, in 1855 AD, the Yellow River broke in Lanyang County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province (now Lankao), and then flowed wantonly in the northeast direction, and finally entered the Bohai Sea in the Daqing River in Shandong, ending the history of more than 700 years of "seizing Si and entering Huai", and basically formed the current Yellow River course pattern. The formation and expansion of the North Jiangsu Delta and the continuous eastward movement of the coastline of North Jiangsu are the result of the formation of a large amount of sediment brought about by the Yellow River's "seizure of Si and Huai".
Data show that in the past 100 years, the average annual erosion of the northern Jiangsu Delta has reached 7-1 billion tons, its coastline has receded by about 20 kilometers, the average annual retreat is 150 meters, and the cumulative loss of land area is about 1,400 square kilometers. These figures do not seem to be much for China, which has 9.6 million square kilometers, but it has made China suffer a big loss in the geopolitical game with South Korea. The reason is simple: in the negotiations on the delimitation of the Yellow Sea between China and South Korea, China insisted on demarcating the continental shelf according to its natural extension, while South Korea advocated the demarcation of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf according to the principle of the "median line".
Now, with the continuous erosion of the northern Jiangsu Delta and the continuous retreat of the coastline, the "middle line" will naturally continue to shift towards our side, which is tantamount to continuously expanding South Korea's rights and interests in the Yellow Sea and compressing our rights and interests. In addition, because Li Bin, the Chinese ambassador to the ROK at that time, betrayed intelligence to the ROK, the mainland was in a disadvantageous position in the negotiations on Suyan Jiao, and in the end, the coastal fishermen lost a large amount of fishery resources, suffered serious losses to national interests, and the ROK "took a big advantage" in the Yellow Sea.
Of course, whether it is the Yellow River "seizing Si into the Huai", or "diverting the route to the north", this is a natural geographical phenomenon, we can not "fight with the sky", but we should at least find a way to stop the continuous retreat of the ancient Yellow River Delta in northern Jiangsu, do not lose the coastline, after all, every kilometer of the coastline retreats, it may mean that dozens, hundreds or even thousands of square kilometers of resources are in the bag of South Korea, now is the era of the supremacy of sea power, and it is no longer the era of land power of the agricultural country.