Silk Road

Since the end of March, China has opened a new front in its global diplomacy. The Covid-19 virus originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, from where it rapidly spread around the world. Initial cover-ups about the extent of the virus by the People’s Republic of China and Beijing’s crackdown…

WUHAN, CHINA - MARCH 28, 2020 - China Europe train (Wuhan) x8015 / 6 starts from Wuhan Central ... Station of China Railway Union, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, March 28, 2020. The train will leave Alataw pass and is expected to arrive in Duisburg, Germany, in 15 days. This…

It has been a big week for Huawei, with the firm breaking through all manner of barriers – including ongoing shade from the US government and the pandemic sweeping the land – to unveil its new Huawei P40 line of phones. And at first glance, you may justifiably think the…

A train engine pulls carriages that started their Journey in Yiwu in China into Barking rail freight ... terminal on January 18, 2017 in Barking, England. After traveling for 16 days and covering around 7,456 miles, the train passed through China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France. Dan…

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Chinese state media on Wednesday pushed the notion of a “Health Silk Road,” modeled after the New Silk Road infrastructure program, which later came to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In other words, having infected the entire planet with the Wuhan coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party…

The Chinese arrived first. A China Eastern Airbus A-350 from Shanghai touched down at Rome’s semideserted international airport. It was March 12.Nine veterans of the “Battle of Wuhan” — specialists who had fought on the initial front line of the coronavirus epidemic — led the contingent. Sent by Chinese President…

The Covid 19 pandemic is the second major crisis of globalization in a decade. The first was the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, from which the global economy took years to reach a semblance of recovery. We did not learn our lessons from the first, and this is perhaps why…

I was young in 1972 when Nixon went to China, but I still remember the excitement attendant on that visit. For most of us, it was our first look into a formerly hermetically sealed country. Seeing China on the television was almost as exotic as seeing the surface of the…

Italy is at the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe. China has come to Italy's aid, while some critics say Europe has lacked solidarity in fighting the crisis, to Beijing's advantage. As the COVID-19 outbreak ravages communities in northern Italy, a group of Chinese medical experts arrived in the…