China to the U.S. High Speed Rail

China is eyeing an 8,078-mile high-speed rail line that will directly connect China with the United States. The plan is for the high-speed line to travel from mainland China up through Siberia in Eastern Russia and then under the Bearing Strait into Alaska, across Canada and into the USA. The line would boost tourism and trade between China, Russia, Canada and the United States. The proposed line would be elevated and require an underwater tunnel four times larger than the Channel Tunnel to cross the Bering Strait. With a proposed price tag of $200 billion and increasing geopolitical rivalries amongst the countries that would be involved, this project is purely a wishful dream.