China to Europe: Let’s Include the Moon in the Silk Road

Joseph P. Farrell There may be a new twist to China’s Silk Road economic and infrastructure strategy, one that has truly enormous geopolitical and commercial implications. First, let’s recall where exactly we are in terms of China’s Silk Road project. A few weeks ago, the first freight train from China arrived in… London. Now, Mr….

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Eurasian Integration or Empire of Chaos

Today, 90% of the global container trade still travels by ocean, and that’s what Beijing plans to change.     November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers…