Belt and Road

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…

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Security personnel near a Golden Bridge on Silk Road decoration for the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in April.Credit: Jasin Lee/Reuters Takht-i-Bahi, or Throne of Origins, is a 2,000-year-old Buddhist monastery complex in an unexpected place a hilltop in t…

Security personnel near a Golden Bridge on Silk Road decoration for the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in April.Credit: Jasin Lee/Reuters Takht-i-Bahi, or Throne of Origins, is a 2,000-year-old Buddhist monastery complex in an unexpected place a hilltop in t…

On a freezing November morning, Ashraf Islam is 3,000 kilometres from his family in balmy Bangladesh, but the weather is far from his mind as he gushes about the science opportunities he has encountered in Beijing. We have good facilities at home, but the fa…

Its nearly 10 p.m. and a shopping mall called Lucky One is buzzing in the heart of Karachi. In the ground-floor food court, throngs of extended families enjoy a night out before the start of the weekend, while a boisterous group nearby plots the future of sci…