China has plans to spend tons of money to build a new trade route linking asia to europe. This will not take place over night, china is already the largest exporter in the world, and has eyes on being the trade giant on the planet,I wonder if the fact that they have not had a major or minor war in over 60 years has anything to do with it? This is more "fake news" from NPR.Now i'm starting to put some credence to that term"**** clever those chinese".