China's new secret weapon :Bullet Trains



China has conducted an unexpected military mobility exercise, boarding a People's Liberation Army brigade from the Lanzhou military region on a high-speed train and sending them 300 miles to the western province Xinjiang, home to an insurgency fought between the state and ethnic Uyghur Muslim militants.

The high-speed line to Xianjiang is the newest of six in the country, having opened in 2014.
The need to move its army fast stems from the geographical enormity of the country and China's relations with neighboring states, of which there are 14. Ongoing border disputes with India, potentially unstable Myanmar to the south, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to the west, and the country's border with North Korea explain China's striving to evaluate its military's performance in rapid movement, with sights set on the army being able to respond to various types of crises.
For a country with such a huge territory and the longest land border in the world, handling the problem by using civilian infrastructure may indeed be a clever solution.


To date, China has the largest high-speed rail network in the world with trains traveling faster than 120 miles per hour. By the 2020s, Beijing plans to more than double the number of its high-speed lines.

An analysis of the trial run held on June 2 evaluated the train fully loaded with troops, with equipment placed on the luggage racks and in the spare room at both ends of each carriage.


 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

INDIA WON’T SUPPRESS TEWARI’S FREE ENERGY GENERATOR.

Google Earth discovers stone gates in Saudi Arabia: Precursor to more mysterious civilization?

Google has patented the ability to control a robot army.