China Advances Plans For World`s Longest Rail Tunnel To Connect Taiwan To Mainland
(WorldNews China)

China has been planning to build the world`s longest undersea railway tunnel that would link the mainland and Taiwan, with scientists close to confirming its design, the Daily Mail reports.At 135 kilometers (84 miles), the proposed Taiwan Strait Tunnel would be more than three times the length of the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France, which is currently the world`s longest undersea rail tunnel. The billion-pound project aims to take high-speed trains through the Taiwan Strait at up to 250 kilometers per hour (155 mph) by 2030, according to the South China Morning Post. However, despite the latest technological progress, political tensions between Taiwan and Beijing - which regards...