Belt and Road

1. Left-wing critique of the Green New Deal. 2. TV show about North Korean defector beauties (NYT, recommended). 3. China/Moldova fact of the day: “World alcohol consumption on the rise as China’s thirst grows. Chinese will surpass the US for per capita int…

The Belt and Road Initiative is aimed at bolstering Beijing’s economic and political reach. (Reuters) China’s largest online travel agency Ctrip has removed from its platform products offering travel and accommodation services to Arunachal Pradesh following …

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Chinese and Venezuelan flags. Getty The chaos in Venezuela continues to affect policies far from that countrys shores and borders. Its neighbors could hardly avoid the fallout from th…

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…