{"id":84554,"date":"2014-05-09T09:12:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T05:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=84554"},"modified":"2014-05-09T09:12:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T05:12:25","slug":"china-considers-building-a-rail-link-to-america-8000-mile-journey-would-take-less-than-two-days-and-involve-going-through-125-mile-undersea-tunnel-to-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=84554","title":{"rendered":"China considers building a rail link to AMERICA: 8,000-mile journey would take less than two days and involve going through 125-mile undersea tunnel to Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/high-speed-link.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84553\" alt=\"\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0563\u0568\u0576\u0569\u0561\u0581 \u0565\u0580\u056f\u0561\u0569\u0578\u0582\u0572\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/high-speed-link.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/high-speed-link.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/high-speed-link-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/high-speed-link-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China is considering building an 8,000-mile high-speed rail link to America that would take less than two days to travel.<\/p>\n<p>Travelling at around 217mph, the train would leave the north east of the country, run through Siberia and enter a 125-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, the shortest crossing between Russia and Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>It would then resurface and head south through Canada, before reaching its destination in the US.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the American, Canadian or Russian governments have agreed to the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>If completed, it would be 2,300 miles longer than the Trans-Siberian Railway, making it the longest train route in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the plans haven not been finalised, it is believed the project would be developed and financed by the Chinese, who have become global leaders in high-speed rail travel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; China is considering building an 8,000-mile high-speed rail link to America that would take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":84553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1306,9910],"class_list":["post-84554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-china-2","tag-high-speed-rail","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}