Belt and Road

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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…

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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…