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Chinese experts 'in discussions' over building high-speed Beijing-US railway

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   350km/h. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters

   China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the
   US, the country's official media reported on Thursday.

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   According to the state-run China Daily, the tunnel technology is
   "already in place" and will be used to build a high-speed railway
   between the south-east province of Fujian and Taiwan. "The project will
   be funded and constructed by China," it said. "The details of this
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   The Beijing Times listed the China-US line as one of four international
   high-speed rail projects currently in the works. The first is a line
   that would run from London via Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Kiev and Moscow,
   where it would split into two routes, one of which would run to China