China's more like 7000 miles away by air:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+from+beijing+t...

And as far as putting it on a boat, sailing it across the pacific, through panama, and up the atlantic - or dropping it off in Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, or Mexico and putting it on a train... well you do the math :)

Either way, that's a lot of diesel.