Silk Road

Prepare for immediate readjustment of your bucket lists, because the best places to visit in 2020 have been named by the adventure experts at Lonely Planet and its Bhutan thats the No1 country, followed by England. Lonely Planet's newly released Best In Trav…

TAIPEI - Floating trash speckles the worlds oceans, some of which are running low on fish. Now China, a source of those problems and dominant force in several Asian maritime sovereignty disputes, indicates it will work with other countries to improve those se…

Monday, October 21, 2019 Don't count on Wall St. to predict an earnings recession As of Friday, Wall Streets top stock market strategists as a consensus expect the S&P 500 (^GSPC) to deliver 10.4% of earnings per share growth in 2020. Its a number so ro…

What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. Ive tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way:  Its a quadruple win. The U.S. performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can sell a…

As China continues to court more countries to join its massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), India has made its position very clear that it wont be participating because of a territorial dispute, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Yahoo Finance…

ISTANBUL-Anadolu Agency Turkey is working intensively to surpass its current trade volume with China -- $20 billion -- focusing on high value-added projects within a win-win framework, the head of the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TIM) said on Oct. 18. The B…

But Georgievas challenges start closer to home. The IMFs members no longer agree on many things, from how to bolster growth to how to govern themselves. And Georgievas agenda is likely to push them out of their comfort zones further. She wants to take the…

Inspired by the ancient Silk Road, China is investing in a massive set of international development projects that are raising concerns about how the country is expanding its power around the world. Initially announced in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping, …

Three traditional Chinese colors offer three different packaging options. Line drawing techniques and tea receipts that circulated during the late Qing Dynasty are applied to the seal script design on the bottom of the brick tea. The final implementation of t…

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola welcome Carl Zha, the host of “Silk and Steel,” which is a weekly podcast on the history, culture, and current events of China and the Silk Road. Zha provides a primer on what has unfolded with the protests in Hong Kong.…