His country into the dominant global power its already challenging the us is the worlds biggest economy and now china is extending its strategic and commercial influence through the creation of a giant trading that work known as the new silk road. So our question on quadriga this week is the new silk road chinas route to europe and to discuss that question im joined by three excellent analysts here in the studio beginning with found by. The senior experts on china for the battles Man Foundation he believes the time to balance chinas influence in a reasonable way may be running. Also with us is under as clute editor in chief falls under splats global he was once based in hong kong and has for many years followed the rise of china and korea says that europe should stop being naive china has a plan for economic domination of the aeration landmass and seeing. A very warm welcome to two ruth cashed. Ruth is a freelance journalist and china expert and she argues that chinas belt and Road Ini