Piece of cake. They haven't got submersibles. Yet...
Posted on 05/10/2014 8:46:00 AM PDT by Theoria
China is planning to build a train line that would, in theory, connect Beijing to the United States. According to a report in the Beijing Times, citing an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese officials are considering a route that would start in the country's northeast, thread through eastern Siberia and cross the Bering Strait via a 125-mile long underwater tunnel into Alaska.
"Right now we're already in discussions. Russia has already been thinking about this for many years," says Wang Mengshu, the engineer cited in the article. The proposed "China-Russia-Canada-America" line would be some 8,000 miles long, 1,800 miles longer than the Trans-Siberian railroad. The tunnel that the Chinese would help bore beneath the icy seas would be four times the length of what traverses the English Channel.
That's reason enough to be skeptical of the project, of which there are few details beyond what was attributed to the one official cited by the state-run Beijing Times. Meanwhile, a report in the state-run China Daily insists the country does have the technology and means to complete a construction project of this scale, including another tunnel that would link the Chinese province of Fujian with nearby Taiwan.
In the past half decade or so, China has embarked on an astonishing rail construction spree, laying down tens of thousands of miles tracks and launching myriad high-speed lines. It has signaled its intent to build a "New Silk Road" -- a heavy-duty freight network through Central Asia that would connect with Europe via rail rather than the old caravans that once bridged West and East. A map that appeared on Xinhua's news site outlines the route below, alongside a parallel vision for a "maritime Silk Road."
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I would never ride inside such a tunnel.
Yet Los Angeles has a subway system in daily use by thousands of commuters.
Anything with the tag “Made in China” has dubious quality to start with. I don’t see traversing a submerged tunnel built by them making my bucket list.
Hmmm...are the Chinese in cahoots with the Russians?
Your post made me think of this article:
snip-”Obama has given away seven strategic, oil-rich Alaskan islands to the Russians at a time when we could be going to war with Russia.”
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/02/27/why-russia-needs-alaska/
Wasn’t there a very bad sci-fi movie from the 60s about the chi-coms building a tunnel to invade the U.S.?
....because their track record on above-water trains has been incredibly stellar?
those trains better be made of tupperware because they’re gonna get wet.
yup. good luck fixing that, getting the destroyed trains out, etc.
Yet Los Angeles has a subway system in daily use by thousands of commuters.
Verry interesting....
Ja, aber zeez Los Angeles tectonic plates are Teutonic und are verry disciplined and vill maintain their positions as ordered .
Vee didn't all go to Argentina you know.
In competition with Mexico cartels?
Well, there's one thing that could possibly go wrong.
Germany would probably build some of the equipment used to build the thing, but not the plates. :^)
Or maybe it was Athelstan Spilhaus's Our New Age:
It would work fine and dandy until the OWS and treehugging envoronazi crowd met them in Alaska. Then the speckled foot toad would shut down the entire project. As much as progressives, tyrants, and commies love their trains they are hardly a match for communie industrialists.
Yup, using high-grade Chinese parts. That’ll up the ridership.
Seems like there was a silent movie about building a train tunnel across the Atlantic.
The Alaka route won’t happen but the Silk Road route is a lot more viable and the Chinese are energetic and on the rise and may well do it.
They are not a shriveling pathetic has-been society like a certain other large nation.
That might end up being pretty accurate.
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