Pepe Escobar is great he blogs here <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/Escobar.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/Escobar.html</a>
This article makes it look like bullet trains will transport goods from China to Spain... which is a very stupid idea, as the cost of transport is so much higher than by sea.
>Go west, young Han. One day, if everything happens according to plan (and according to the dreams of China’s leaders), all this will be yours — via high-speed rail, no less.<p>Comparing the opening of a new global trade route to the Manifest Destiny conquest and colonization of the American west is propagandistic and inflammatory. If anything, this will only serve to encourage investment in the rail transport infrastructure we desperately need here in North America.