Of course not. It's trade. By definition, it has to go both directions. The point of what we now call the Silk Road, from the Chinese point of view, was not to sell silk but to buy horses. Silk and other Chinese commodities were traded mainly for horses collected in the western part of Central Asia. read more
Silk Road: Silk Road, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. read more