Silk Road

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia’s new president, a former activist lawyer, used a meeting with China’s top diplomat on Wednesday to criticize Beijing’s human rights record, in a rare departure for an east European politician in a region hungry for Chinese inv…

Friends and family kept saying "have a great holiday" our response was "its looking more like an adventure than a holiday" and so it was. We were becoming comfortable with the typical mid-winter escape for 10 days, which, don't get me wrong, is always wonderf…

The massive infrastructure project, the Meridian highway, has won the support of the Russian government, Vedomosti business daily said, citing government officials. The highway is set to stretch over 2,000km from the Belarus border to the frontier with Kazakh…

The Russian-Pakistani Strategic Partnership (Rusi-Pakistani Yaar Yaar) entered a new phase last week following two significant developments that included their decision to establish a High-Level Inter-Parliamentary Commission and their efforts to expand joint…

Peter Switzer of the Switzer Financial Group says Bitcoin is unnecessary and should be banned. Again With the Pre-Enlightenment FUD Every so often, anti-Bitcoin rhetoric rears its head. Most times, the sentiments expressed appear to be no more educated than…

: After flagging last month the revival of the Bangladesh China India Myanmar- Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC) during talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek, Chinese President Xi Jinping joined visiting Prime Minister of Bangladesh …

the oval partnership recently completed the quijang creative cultural center in xian, china. the state of the art multi-functional theater will host a diverse palette of cultural performances, concerts, educational events and exhibitions. it is meant to be th…

When the tanks were rolling into Tiananmen Square and the Cold War hadnt yet formally come to an end, it seemed obvious: freedom and democracy were prerequisites for economic success. Yet over the past three decades, China has challenged that notion by creati…

Back in 2017, Chinese authorities in Xinjiang began stopping members of the Uyghur ethnic minority and forcing them to install spyware on their phones: it marked an intensification of the country's crackdown on Uyghur's and other ethnic/religious minorities, …

President Trump speaks to reporters at the White House about border security amid a government shutdown on January 3, 2019. (Reuters / Carlos Barria) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles lik…