Name: 中國可能利用海底隧道入侵台灣（Underwater Tunnel China Could Use to Invade Taiwan）
Uploaded: 2021-04-23T14:43:38.000Z
Duration: 7 min 40 s
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China wants to build the world's longest underwater tunnel—

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to a country that it doesn't even recognize as a country.

Authoritarian regimes sure come up with the craziest schemes.

Like China's canal designed to transport billions of gallons of water

all the way from the south of the country to the north,

Or China's plans to build a giant city so big,

it's bigger than the entire population of England and France combined.

Just kidding they're not building “a” megacity.

the world's longest underwater train tunnel.

And less of a mutually agreed-upon decision.

Because, according to the South China Morning Post,

Chinese scientists are planning the world's longest train tunnel...

Rumor has it, the Chinese Communist Party absolutely adores the plan!

they're ready to start planning without Taiwan's cooperation.

Researchers told the South China Morning Post that

“it's possible Beijing would start work on the project

in a unilateral and largely symbolic move.”

And yes, Hsinchu happens to be where Taiwan has an army base—

where forces train hard to prepare for an aggressive,

unannounced visit by the People's Liberation Army.

So there's a good chance that Taiwan might react negatively

if members of a Chinese tunnel drilling team start to

But due to engineering constraints, a tunnel this long

could probably never be completed without digging from both ends.

And when Taiwan's Minister Chen Min-tong,

who's responsible for relations between Taiwan and the mainland,

got wind that the plans for the tunnel were ready and the CCP

saying “The proposal is part of China's consistent

united front propaganda and was made unilaterally.”

Chen also said there had not been any bilateral

communication between China and Taiwan on the subject,

But from the Communist Party's perspective,

although it would make things go much smoother.

That's because the Party considers Taiwan

a province of the People's Republic of China,

and has vowed to seize control of it sooner or later,

Actually Chinese president Xi Jinping has ordered

No wonder Taiwan is a bit suspicious of this underwater tunnel.

The Taiwanese minister also said that by proposing the tunnel,

China was “attacking Taiwan's potential for international space

using militaristic intimidation and trying to mislead the public

into thinking that this was a bilateral decision.”

the project could still be fraught with some of the same problems

that have plagued China's own rail system.

Like the massive corruption that caused the Communist Party

to have to dissolve and restructure THE ENTIRE RAILWAYS MINISTRY.

And also, give the railways minister a suspended death sentence

But even if the tunnel is built without corruption,

that disregarded the realities of the natural environment.

the world's largest hydro-powered project,

who asked not to be named because who in their right mind

said the underwater tunnel would need to cross not one,

The scientist called the tunnel one of the “most challenging

civil engineering projects in the 21st century.”

And that's because in addition to cutting across

the tunnel has to slice through complex layers of rock,

including extremely hard granite sandwiched between layers

without an earthquake getting in the way,

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