This is what it means to open your nation to trade with other nations.

This is the latest review with its statistics re the Belt and Road initiative:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1129613.shtml

This is simple business - of trade and making profit, for yourself and for your nation.

There is no basis re stealing intellectual property, hacking, and violating sacred and holy US pontifical sanctions.

The old silk road traffic included philosophical, cultural, religious perhaps a touch of ideas and thought exchanges. The new silk road does not. It is just about human made products and money.

It seems that all the co-participating nations are quite happy with the current arrangement.

Of course the US is seeing this increasing prosperity for the co-participating nations and it is furious, fuming and frothing at China for thinking about re-actualizing the old silk road in this new form.

Now, utterly incensed and insane over it, it has decided to whack China by instigating a trade war, which, according to Yukon Huang is about the silliest thing the US could ever think of doing.