Why the New Silk Roads terrify Washington

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/10/why-the-new-silk-roads-terrify-washington/
Date Written:  2016-10-10
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX20037

Almost six years ago, President Putin proposed to Germany 'the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.' This idea represented an immense trade emporium uniting Russia and the EU, or, in Putin's words, "a unified continental market with a capacity worth trillions of dollars."

In a nutshell: Eurasia integration.

Washington panicked.