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Beijing says it now has capacity to build Taiwan high-speed rail link from Chinese mainland::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is the rail link called the Trojan Dragon or something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Plugging mysterious usb drive into computer

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Please let us build the only way we could get troops onto Taiwan"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Washington announces it now has the capacity for low speed passenger trains to get stuck behind grain freight and go even slower so it takes take 29h to get to Chicago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

God every time I read about US passenger trains it pisses me off

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have to stop in major cities so drug addicts can loot them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

It also goes to Detroit despite the city being abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can confirm.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent way to ship ~~soldiers~~ patrons

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe the modern nomenclature is "peaceful tourists."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Next ~~target~~ stop: Taipei"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

More like

Next: Stop Taipei!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Taipei responds with a high speed go fuck yourself

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That’s cool. It also has a roughly 0% possibility of actually being done, regardless of whether or not the technology is available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just needs a Chinese unification. Yeah probably unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CCP did the same for Tibet. Just to send more Xi's thugs to rape and pillage the country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wait fr? When

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mainland China is about 100 miles away. Thats a damn long distance. Strictly from an engineering perspective, that would be incredibly impressive feat if they did it.

Did a quick search and it looks like the longest rail bridges now hit a max of roughly 1/4 what this Taiwan-to-China bridge would need to be.

https://www.thetravel.com/longest-over-water-bridges-in-the-world/#manchac-swamp-bridge-united-states

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They said they can do it. Never said how long it'll stand after they do it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. But this would not be a cheap project if they legitimately attempted it, so they probably would want to keep the Chinesium quality to a minimum so it doesn't fall apart after it's first use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Chinesium lol, even so, even if they get the best quality everything and actually make it structurally sound. It's the Chinese, they'll fuck it up somehow and blame it on western sabotage.