The Chinese have started their invasion, it will take a few years before they arrive (pop-up) in Xinzhu tho. the military is prepared!
The BBC actually made a documentary about this, called "Big Trainâ. Its pretty scary stuff:
That dude is hilarious.
Digging a tunnel would cause earthquakes?
Please watch over Taiwan, if you happen to see Chinese digginâ at the beach in Xinzhu, theyâr starting the tunnel! Tell them no digging here.
The Zerg is the first thing that popped in my mind.
Set Vikings to patrol for suspicious Overlords and get some turrets up, NOW!
Or bunkers and tanks⌠whatever counters nydus ^^;
T. Brother Elon
Reviving this thread since there has been a sudden series of extremely localized earthquakes in Hsinchu.
Several over the past week, and about 8 in just the last day or so. Today is also the first official day of the Beijing Olympics. Also the world has focused on Russiaâs purposely visible military buildup near Belarus and Ukraine, and would not be possible to see Chinaâs underground military buildup if they really had a tunnel.
Could it be China has almost completed one of their planned tunnels connecting China to Taiwan?
Yes.
Thatâs it.
tunneling, old school. sappers is middle ages old-school: Going underground on JSTOR
I mean, the Koreans keep finding tunnels from the North through the DMZ, why wouldnât China try the same?
Is there a nice bit of open ocean over the DMZ?
That would be an interesting thing to seeâŚflood the DMZ and you can get watermines along with all that flourishing biodiversity. Please no!!
Didnât China try to or actually build an underground hsr route from Beijing to Tianjin, which also went way too far underground (or maybe it was also underwater) and also had multiple fault lines? It seems like this is something theyâve just decided to do. The CCP is at war with geology.
Itâd be one engineering feat. Itâd be double the length of Japanâs Seikan Tunnel, the longest subsea tunnel in the world, itâd be prohibitively expensive and itâd require digging in one way only, as Taiwan woudnât be helping on the other side. Would very very visible-on-satellite works as excavating that amount of rock would be very difficult to hide.
Itâd be through fault lines. It wouldnât be a tunnel for walking 160 km. Trains would slip if the grade is too steep so thatâs out of the question. A road tunnel would need to be built to standardsâŚfor vehicles.
Would certainly take 20+ years.
I feel it is unlikely they are tunnelling to Taiwan.
Impressive tunnel!
Itâs 53.85km
The Seabed portion is actually 23km long, 100 meters below the seabed, and 240 meters below sea level
The Taiwan Strait seabed can drop to 1700 meters below sea level in some sections⌠however, some maps appear to show the span between Pingtan and Hsinchu is only 50 to 100 meters deep.
Some articles state that if China could break through and hold position for a couple hours, it would be enough to tip the scales in Chinaâs favor. For them it wouldnât even end up being a military expense since China would just repurpose the tunnel for trade afterwards and is something they first proposed in 1996, 26 years ago.
Yet, they would have to break through a hole big enough to hold at least cars, if not tanks and not have it collapse under itself since there are no infrastructure projects constructing a tunnel that is joining the Chinese side. Boring machines that bore holes are very slow and such a tunnel would need to be reinforced.
If itâs anywhere in Taoyuan or Hsinchu, someoneâs going to hear that machine as itâs all occupied. There are houses and farms everywhere. If itâs GuanxiâŚthen they need 300-1000 metres of mountain and many more km inland to bore through while they drive out of the hole and tumble down the side of the mountain.
And then, theyâre going to build one tunnel? One chokepoint to drown the PLA?
How much they gonna spend on this? $50 Billion US? $100 Billion US?
I guess China has to be the biggest at everything. Theyâll make Zhengzhou look like a joke.
Pretty sure labor would come at cost.
Gas it