Silk Road exists on darknets and is criticized.
 The name "New Silk Road" is used to describe several large infrastructure projects seeking to expand transportation along many of the historic trade routes; among the best known include the Eurasian Land Bridge and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
=== Decline and disintegration (15th century) ===The fragmentation of the Mongol Empire loosened the political, cultural, and economic unity of the Silk Road

