Malcolm: I think we're trying to look fift years ahead. Europe and china, for a thousand years, have had to have contact with each other by the sea lanes. That huge central asian land mass has been like the atlantic ocean. It was a barrier. What is happening now and if we look five, ten, 15 years ahead, already, freight trains are going from china to western europe every week. So what that means is europe and china could be looking directly at each other. Malcolm: Regardless of the politics, china and europe being able to look rectly to each other and trade with each other in that way,.