A vacuum tube travelling from LA to Hong Kong in 2.5 hours!

In the first WEBEO of 2016, I propose a high speed vacuum tube, stretching 8067 miles from Los Angeles, USA to Hong Kong, China. The maximum speed will be 6000 mph between British Columbia and Northeast China, with other sections ranging between 600 mph and 2000 mph, based on terrain and curves. 

Such a system will easily be the hardest to construct, as the line crosses the Bering Strait and frigid Siberia. While its economic and time benefits are easily realised, such a proposal may mean that supersonic air-travel must be revived, as such a solution, in the long run, may be cheaper. However, if transportation innovates as it has been, this would be the end result. Interesting, perhaps; expensive, definitely.

Note: The segment from Los Angeles to San Francisco could be a possible routing of Elon Musk's Hyperloop system.

Stops: Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Beijing-Tianjin, Jinan, Nanjing-Shanghai, Shenzhen-Guangdong, and Hong Kong-West Kowloon.

Tokyo Branch: Shenyang, Pyongyang, Seoul-Incheon, Daegu, Hiroshima-Asakita, Osaka-Kyoto, Nagoya-Aichi, and Tokyo.

By: Atharv Gupte