Silk Road

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…

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.…