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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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[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is the rail link called the Trojan Dragon or something?

[–] Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

Plugging mysterious usb drive into computer

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years 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.

[–] philodendron 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 years ago

It also goes to Detroit despite the city being abandoned.

[–] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can confirm.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Taipei responds with a high speed go fuck yourself

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Excellent way to ship ~~soldiers~~ patrons

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe the modern nomenclature is "peaceful tourists."

[–] ours@lemmy.film 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Next ~~target~~ stop: Taipei"

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

More like

Next: Stop Taipei!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Just needs a Chinese unification. Yeah probably unlikely.

[–] fixerdude2@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Wait fr? When

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years 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

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years 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.