Aug. 11-- Schiller Institute Founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche released today the following open letter to President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. The letter is copied to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The letter is accompanied by three articles from EIR magazine on May 4, 2007, on constructing a Bering Strait tunnel, through which would pass a rail line that unites the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. The addresses for three of the EIR articles that would accompany Mrs. Zepp-LaRouche’s letter are presented immediately below: “Russian-American Team: World Needs Bering Strait Tunnel!”; “Mendeleyev Would Have Agreed;” “Origins of the Bering Strait Project.”

To President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin:

When you are meeting in Alaska on August 15, the fate of humanity lies in your hands. Against all the attempts by the opponents of peace, you can not only bring the war in Ukraine to an end, and with it eliminate the Sword of Damocles of the nuclear extinction of the human species at least over this conflict, but you can also reintroduce diplomacy into the relation of the two most powerful nuclear nations on the planet.

But there is something even more elevated you can do, by not only fighting off the threats facing mankind, but by giving the whole world a beautiful vision for the future. You could agree to build a corridor across the Bering Strait, and with that rail and tunnel project unite the rail systems of Eurasia with those of the Americas. This project would open up for development the vast untapped resources of Siberia, as well as the U.S. Arctic resources of oil, gas, precious metals of all kinds, as well as fresh water. Siberia and the Russian Far East hold the largest deposits of raw materials of all the elements which one can find in Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table, and the joint development of these resources, to which many other resource-poor countries could be invited, could become the perfect war-avoidance program and greatly enhance the prosperity of the world.

In the not so distant future, one could then travel by high-speed railroad around the world, from the most southern tips of Argentina and Chile in Ushuaia and Puerto Williams, all way through the Americas, then through the Bering Strait, across Eurasia, then with a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, travel all the way through the African continent to the Cape of Good Hope.

The Bering Strait Tunnel project has been studied and promoted over decades by leading scientific and political figures in the United States, Russia and China, as is documented in the attached set of articles from EIR magazine, dating back to 2007, as well as an 8-minute video prepared by Dr. Victor Razbegin, deputy chairman of the SOPS, Russia’s Council for the Study of Productive Forces, which won the Grand Prize for Innovation at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.

The Bering Strait Tunnel and related great infrastructure projects could also serve as the basis for further in-depth discussions among Presidents Trump, Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, should President Trump be invited and agree to attend the 80th anniversary celebration of the end of World War II, to be held in China on Sept. 3—as I have earlier proposed.

This project for integrated infrastructure of the whole world as the basis for development will lay the basis for ending war as a means of conflict resolution forever. The hope of humanity rests on you!

Respectfully Yours,

Helga Zepp-LaRouche

Founder, Schiller Institute

Aug. 11, 2025

cc.: President Xi Jinping