Silk Road

Brussels (AFP) - The EU and Japan on Friday signed an infrastructure agreement to link Europe and Asia as a counter to China's ambitious "Belt and Road" strategy. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker inked the …

The agreement formally seals Japan’s engagement in the new EU-Asia connectivity plan and was signed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at the Europa Connectivity Forum in Brussels on Friday. “Whether i…

The EU-Japan agreement stresses on importance of projects being sustainable, environmentally and fiscallyBrussels, Belgium: The EU and Japan on Friday signed an infrastructure agreement to link Europe and Asia, as a counter to China's ambitious "Belt and Road…

BEIJING When Turkeys leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visited Beijing this summer, he hailed a new Silk Road bridging Asia and Europe. He welcomed big Chinese investments for his beleaguered economy. He gushed about Chinas sovereignty. But Mr. Erdogan, who has …

(Reuters) - China will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule on Oct. 1 with flowers, speeches, performances and a massive military parade though central Beijing. The 70 years since the end of the civil war, in which Communists and Nationali…

On a path winding around the Dalai Lama’s temple, in a village near Dharamsala, India, called McLeod Ganj, I met a monk who taught me the meaning of om mani padme hum—“all hail the jewel in the lotus”—while he scattered handfuls of rice on top of a concrete w…

The China-Russia cross-border Heihe-Yuexing logistics hub was established by Shanghai-based Yuexing Group, a leading comprehensive group in China. Its main business covers urban commerce, home chain, space customization, cultural tourism industry and industri…

Three years ago when I was tossing around the idea of a long-term bikepacking trip, I had two primary options on my mind. There was Peru and the Andes of South America, which I had a tiny bit of familiarity with given my short previous stint there, and then t…

Amidst the swirl of U.S.-China relations was the recent announcement that the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) would accelerate deployments to the western Pacific in order to counter Chinese gray zone tactics. That sounds nice in theory, but then the USCG is chronical…

Among them, Seine Mouiller, a new organic product of Jinlingguan, strictly follows the standards for native organic products in terms of raw materials and product formula. With a 132-year-old exclusive Danish native pasture, stricter product standards, less m…