A) Have you misinterpreted the term
'dynamic routing' as it applies to routers? (meaning: routing tables are still set up by network engineering, unless routers have become sentient in applying such things as Path vector protocol and Distance vector algorithms)
B) Now, address the issue of route capacity, i.e., fiber capacity in/out of China ...
OK: those 18 minutes would have been very slow on the ‘net
Had it gone on longer, people might have started complaining