Belt and Road

Nearly three times the size of France, and taking up around one sixth of Chinas total area, Xinjiang is a vast expanse of harsh desert, broken up sporadically by small cities, towns and industrial settlements. Once the first leg of the Silk Road, an ancient t…

China's Xinjiang province is home to the country's Uyghur ethnic minority and other people of Turkic Muslim descent; it has become a living laboratory for next-generation, electronically mediated totalitarianism; up to 1,000,000 people have been sent to conce…

Just southeast of the European Parliament in Brussels, construction cranes are hard at work, hauling the last window panes into place for a gleaming new building that establishes a beachhead for China in the heart of the European Union. After four years of p…

Just southeast of the European Parliament in Brussels, construction cranes are hard at work, hauling the last window panes into place for a gleaming new building that establishes a beachhead for China in the heart of the European Union. After four years of p…

Even before Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled the monumental trade plan now known as the Belt and Road Initiative to the rest of the world, he was already selling elements of it to astronomers. Mónica Rubio, president of the Chilean Society of Astronomy …

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Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He, pictured with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (left) and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (right), will travel to the U.S. for another round of trade negotiations. | Andy Wong/AFP/Getty Images This story is being pu…

The huge explosion in March at the Tianjiayi Chemical Companys plant in China could have been prevented had safety lessons been learnt from previous accidents (see Z. Tang et al. Nature 525, 455; 2015). Chinas chemical and petroleum industry has grown marke…

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The Belt and Road is really the expansion of a specific part of Chinas domestic political economy to the rest of the world. That is the nexus between state-owned contractors and state-owned banks, which formed in the domestic infrastructure building spree con…