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It's doable. And the Chinese have never shied away from mega-engineering projects.
Hopefully it would spur more investment in infrastructure here in the states. We've been resting on our laurels for decades, and in a competitive world that means falling behind.
It's completely unfeasible. Suppose they did somehow build a brand new 3000-mile rail line from Khabarovsk to the middle of the Bering Strait. Then what?
Do you really think the US and Canada would give them permission to build another new line from there to the nearest railhead in central BC?
It's doable. And the Chinese have never shied away from mega-engineering projects.
Hopefully it would spur more investment in infrastructure here in the states. We've been resting on our laurels for decades, and in a competitive world that means falling behind.
Right and didn't they build those mega ships in the movie 2012.
Who'd be crazy enough to use it? This is the country that builds high rise residences in record times, only for them to fall over. Or paints windows on the hotel because they can't be bothered to use real windows, or builds bridges out of styrofoam and then paint it to look like concrete, and so on. Yeah, no way in hell I'd ride their undersea tube!
It's completely unfeasible. Suppose they did somehow build a brand new 3000-mile rail line from Khabarovsk to the middle of the Bering Strait. Then what?
Do you really think the US and Canada would give them permission to build another new line from there to the nearest railhead in central BC?
The Chinese have proven over that they are up to just about any engineering and infrastructure challenge. Those old boys over in China don't mess around.
The Chinese are also building a high speed rail line along the old Silk Road to connect them to Turkey, Persia (Iran) and the Persian Gulf and a upgrade of the Trans-Siberian rail road to the modern high speed standard to connect them with Moscow and then to Warsaw and a link to Europes extensive high speed system. Eventually , one would get on a high speed train in London and two days later get off in Shaghai. Other high speed rail links in contruction are a China to Singapore link through Laos, Thailland and Malasia. a under sea link to to Taiwan and one along the old Burma road to reach India and Pakistan. Pretty soon all roads (railroads ) may go to Beijing. The Chinese are thinking like Romans. heh heh. China does build big like the Great 3000 mile wall (actually a line of fortifications)., the Great Canal from the Huang Ho River to the Yangtze River built more than 1000 yers ago. To the Three Gorges Dam the worlds largest Dam and hydroelectric power station Chinas modern wonder.
While the Americans are a spent nation beginning to stagnate . The Chinese are building the world they intend to lead and control. Americans need to get used to it and if need be get out of their way unless they want to get run over.
They have been talking about this for a long long time. freight train would be cool, it would be much faster than shipping stuff by boat across the pacific. passenger train? no way, huge waste of money... nobody would want to sit on a train for that long.
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