Lincoln and Sun Yat-sen: The Silk Road Roots of America and the American Roots of the New Silk Road

Upon reading this title, I can only imagine a reader asking: How could a young nation that only existed since 1776 be responsible for an idea which has its roots in a program that dates back over two millenia?

Of course I am not implying that that America created the ancient Silk Road, but what I am implying is that in principle both the 2000 year old Si…