The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

The Xi’an Centre Culture Business District (CCBD), a 155,000 sq m neighbourhood designed by UK architect Heatherwick Studio, ...

US President Donald Trump’s spending freeze for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) could allow China to fill the resultant gap under the aegis of its Belt and Road ...

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They said that under this approach, the US might target countries that are part of the Belt and Road Initiative or other frameworks involving China, such as Brics, as Washington sought to ...

BEIJING - China is opposed to U.S. "smearing and sabotage" of the Belt and Road Initiative in Panama through "pressure and coercion", its foreign ministry said on Friday, after the South American ...

Panama appears to have bowed to Donald Trump’s aggressive style of diplomacy by ditching its involvement in China’s Belt and ... The agreement, dubbed the new Silk Road, involves a $1 trillion ...

Panama will allow its 2017 trade and development pact involving China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” to expire, said Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino at a press conference Sunday ...

The practice is a unique tradition of local Hakka people to welcome spring plowing and pray for a bountiful harvest. [Photo by Zhang Lingxin/CHINA NEWS SERVICE] ...

BEIJING: China on Friday (Feb 7) said it "regrets" Panama's decision to withdraw from Beijing's Belt and Road infrastructure programme after the Latin American nation ended its participation in ...

"I have felt for a long time that USAID is our way to combat the Belt and Road Initiative, which is China's effort to really gain influence around the world, including Africa and South America in ...