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2021-02-10 China-Japan-Koreas

3dc: Light thoughts on Japan and Russia.

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Posted by 3dc 2021-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Turn Keystone around and use the northwest passage to send oil to JPN

Posted by Tiny Gloter3718 2021-02-10 00:42|| 2021-02-10 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Posit : Just a small problem with fault lines

Posted by Jiggs Snereper5969 2021-02-10 00:52|| 2021-02-10 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Tunnels in Earthquake prone areas: (PDF) Seismic behaviour of tunnels: From experiments to ...

Posted by Gliting Snore9087 2021-02-10 05:45|| 2021-02-10 05:45|| Front Page Top

#4 There is still The Kuril Islands/Northern Territories dispute.

Posted by magpie 2021-02-10 12:18|| 2021-02-10 12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 This IS a Pipe dream....

Posted by Albert McGurque4243 2021-02-10 13:12|| 2021-02-10 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Japan’s real tunnels have been going right through the faults already. All their big islands are currently connected. That said the Russian occupied island is a political football hurting both countries in a win for China. If Russia doesn’t want to loose it’s Far East it needs to deal with Japan. Both have too much Face involved so a 3rd party like Musk would be a low face way around it. It doesn’t matter if a quake later takes out Musk’s tunnels.
Japan needs a back door option to the South China Sea and Russia needs help in Siberia. Otherwise, the game ends with a rump Russian client state of China.

A rump Russian client state not in US or Japanese interests.

Posted by 3dc 2021-02-10 15:29|| 2021-02-10 15:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Fault lines are a problem for the construction of tunnels due to the cost of support in the fault zones. Shifting is another matter, but San Francisco's BART has crossing fairly active (I think) fault lines.

Engineering challenges!

Posted by Bobby 2021-02-10 18:31|| 2021-02-10 18:31|| Front Page Top

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