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The Silk Road wasn’t a single road, but a vast network of land and sea trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean. This video unpacks how goods, ideas, religions, and even diseases moved ...
Bunting’s map and Israel on China’s new silk road Oct 15, 2016, 7:19 PM Edit. ... Thus the rise of Israel as a key node in China’s Silk Road grand strategy not only elevates Jerusalem ...
The "Polar Silk Road" over the top of Eurasia isn't yet commercially viable, but when it does open it won't do much to change China's integration into the Pacific economy.
A map of the ancient Silk Road that dates from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is unrolled by antiquities preservation personnel. The historic, 30-meter-long map, painted on silk, was donated on ...
A map illustrating China's silk road economic belt and the 21st century maritime silk road, or the so-called "One Belt, One Road" megaproject, is displayed at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong ...
Earlier this week, Liqun met with global executives from 15 multinationals anxious to hop on China's silk road, also known as the 'One Belt, One Road' initiative (OBOR).
It’s the clearest vision to date of the scope of China’s Silk Road plan. According to the map, the land-based “New Silk Road” will begin in Xi’an in central China before stretching west ...
China is building the world's greatest economic development and construction project ever undertaken: The New Silk Road. The project aims at no less than a revolutionary change in the economic map ...
Rickety vehicles ply Route 312, which parallels the old Silk Road, carrying traders who deal in cell phones rather than silk and spices. NPR's Rob Gifford continues his 3,000-mile journey across ...
Part 1: The New Silk Road. Beginning with the marvelous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road has never ceased to entrance the world.