01:28 Great wall of Taklamakan: China surrounds its largest desert with green belt Great wall of Taklamakan: China surrounds its largest desert with green belt His remarks have offered a rare and ...

The Japanese public has reacted with outrage and horror over reports that two 20-something tourists from their country were detained in China after one bared his buttocks on the Great Wall of ...

Two Japanese tourists in their 20s were detained for two weeks in China, then deported, for taking photos showing exposed buttocks at the Great Wall, local media reported. The incident at the ...

The Global Times, among others, said that this pushes back the construction of the Great Wall of China back by 300 years. However, experts that Live Science contacted disputed this. (Live Science ...

The Great Wall was initially built to safeguard ancient China's northern borders. Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a 2,800-year-old fortified wall that predates the country's first emperor. The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of ...

Michael Brenes, co-director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, argues that engaging in a “great-power competition” with China is misguided and ...

The Great Wall was built to secure ancient China’s northern borders against nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe. Historical records suggest the construction of the Unesco World Heritage ...

Archaeologist have made a major breakthrough, with the discovery of a new section of the Great Wall of China that suggests the structure is 300 years older than previously thought. Thanks to high ...

The Great Wall of China stretches for more than 13,000 miles from Dandong in the east to Lop Lake in the west, along an arc which roughly traces the southern edge of Inner Mongolia. It consists of ...

“We can prevail over any difficulty in pursuing development,” China’s No. 2 official Li Qiang told thousands of delegates seated in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People at the opening ...