For over 1,600 years, merchants, traders, monks and soldiers who journeyed to China’s ancient capital of Xi’an to witness its magnificence travelled via the Silk Road. Now a UNESCO World ...

Two major archaeological sites along the ancient Silk Road opened to the public in northwest China on Thursday ... present an overall and more diverse picture of the Silk Road culture to the ...

On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to ... Dave Petraeus leaves the picture, foreign policy problems ...

where it links up with the rail network in China. The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate ...

Though the BRI has drawn ample media coverage, it also has a pivotal yet lower-profile subplot known as the Digital Silk Road (DSR) — a digital transformation project with the potential to ...

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient feline DNA reveals. This new research — hailed as a "knockout ...

“I had a cordial, friendly and fruitful meeting with Xi Jinping, President of China,” after which “we agreed to incorporate Argentina into the Belt and the Silk Road,” Fernández said on ...