Good post. China is now well into a trillion dollar infrastructure program they call One Belt, One Road which would modernize the old Silk Road, put in a rail link from Belgrade to Budapest to serve Central Europe, a rail line to link eight Asian nations from China to India, and other links in Africa. US investment from major corporations is pouring in, trying to get a cut. China is determined to be THE major world economic player, and they think they can do it without military intervention, with money and diplomacy alone. Russia is on board with the Silk Road deal, since it would skirt their own territories which are now poorly served. The US is losing big time, aside from our private commercial investments.

Read it in the New York Times, this month. Search One Belt, One Road. Sorry I can't supply a link, Civil Comments no longer allows me to post most links or parentheses, or copy & paste quotes.