Posted on 05/29/2021 9:04:41 AM PDT by McGruff
China currently has one of the most expansive and impressive high-speed rail networks on Earth, and they aren’t showing signs of slowing. As their network reaches the far corners of their nation, Beijing could be setting its eyes on what lies beyond – far, far beyond.
According to reports, China wishes to build a high-speed, 13,000-kilometer (8,078-mile) train that travels from mainland China, up through Siberia in Eastern Russia, under the sea through the Bering Strait into Alaska, across the rocky peaks of Canada’s Yukon and British Columbia, and into the USA. Once constructed, they have could further extend their international bullet train into every corner of the US.
The price of such an outlandish proposal? A cool $200 billion. A price tag so high, even the likes of Jeff Bezos probably couldn’t reach it.
The plans emerged in 2014, when multiple news outlets covered a report by the Beijing Times that outlined plans for China to build the 8,000-mile super train. It would be called the “China-Russia-Canada-America" line (catchy, we know) and stretch across all four nations, connecting them together for a trade, tourism, and economic boom. Stretching across the Bering Strait, it would require an underwater tunnel four times larger than the Channel Tunnel, and far more high-tech to boot.
At the time, engineers from China claimed to be already in talks with Russia about beginning the line, which they were very confident was possible with current technology.
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I saw a movie where the Chinese tunneled to the US for secret invasion ,LOL
AOC is the engineer.
Obviously a preposterous plan. It would potentially cause enormous ecological damage. Engineering and building alone would likely be more than that.
That's a drop in the bucket compared to Xiden's infrastructure bill or even the RINOs compromise bill.
What could possibly go wrong?
Ecological damage?
Like the Chinese care about that!!
On that train all graphite and glitter....
Well the Chinese Communist Party think they own the US now and the US will pay for it
maybe fauzi will help fund it.
If you think Amtrak is bad.....
Via Siberia? All they have to do is dig a deep enough hole and they’ll come up in Nebraska. Everyone (but the chinese) knows that!
She wants it to be solar powered.
A train across and through the most dangerous fault lines the earth has to offer. Sign me up!
Why would they go to all the expense? Anything they want brought to and from the US they just have to tell Biden.
They can call it, The China Virus Express.
I think I saw that in a Warner Brothers cartoon.
One deranged political terrorist could set off a satchel bomb in such a tunnel, mid-ocean, and flood the whole structure.
Like these people are our buddies..
More like 200 trillion. That said, no way do I want an infrastructure connection to the communists.
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