Silk Road

The year is far from over, but you should probably put money on “social distancing” being the most popular phrase of 2020. This is the year of COVID-19, a worldwide pandemic that has infected 242,191 people worldwide and claimed 9,843 lives as of this writing. The coronavirus has forced governments…

By Ken MoritsuguThe Associated PressSat., March 21, 2020timer5 min. readBEIJING - As the fight against a new virus shifts to Europe and beyond, China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately needed items to struggling governments, hoping to build political ties and defuse criticism that it allowed the disease…

Key point: If Washington isn’t serious about the rare earth resources of North Korea, then the winner, once again, could be Beijing. When looking at contemporary geopolitics, often energy and related resource questions are  key in the struggle for influence amongst world powers, as energy can drive or amplify underlying tensions.…

(Bloomberg) -- Last month, Beijing’s ambassador to Estonia accused the Baltic nation’s intelligence service of having a “Cold War mindset” for labeling China a threat, warning that its “distorted” conclusions damaged bilateral relations.Four weeks later, Estonian officials took part in a video conference hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign…

Yesterday’s call between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China Yang Jiechi clearly went even worse than thought. Since the conversation President Trump has twice tweeted about the “Chinese virus”, in what looks to be a direct…

(Bloomberg) --At a time of peak instability, this week has been especially rocky.What began with an oil rout that saw prices plummet after a breakdown in talks between OPEC and Russia saw Saudi Arabia kick off a price war ended with days of market turmoil fueled by fears of the…

Skip to comments. How China set forth the global coronavirus crisis into motion The Hill ^ | 12 March 2020 | KRISTINE LEE AND ASHLEY FENG Posted on 03/13/2020 4:09:11 AM PDT by HK_Kai_Chung As the shroud of crisis began to lift at the center of the coronavirus epidemic in…

The rapidly spreading coronavirus is causing major disruption for marketers, forcing unprecedented action, including mandating employees work from home, closing offices, stopping agency reviews and tweaking or stopping certain advertising. Below, some of the latest actions that major marketers are taking.  This will be updated as the situation develops, latest news…

With a tireless team at his side, the insatiably curious multihyphenate seems to have the key to success in the post-EDM era: diversify or die. Given the 8,700 miles and 20-hour flight between Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, it stands to reason that most folks making the trek might stay…

In the increasingly urbanized world, few people still ride horses for reasons beyond sport or leisure. However, on horseback, people, goods and ideas moved across vast distances, shaping the power structures and social systems of the premechanized era. From the trade routes of the Silk Road or the great Mongol…