China is reportedly planning to build a high speed undersea train line connecting Beijing to the US.
According to the Washington Times and as reported in the Beijing Times, an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering said that 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.
Wang Mengshu, the engineer, said that talks are on at the moment and Russia has already been thinking about this for many years.
The "China-Russia-Canada-America" train line would reportedly be some 8,000 miles long, 1,800 miles longer than the Trans-Siberian railroad.
The report adds that the tunnel the Chinese would help bore beneath the icy seas would be four times the length of what traverses the English Channel.
