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 ...

These traders had to eat on the go, and the foods they brought with them were the ancient-world equivalent of instant ramen ...

On Thursday, China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency unveiled an ongoing feature entitled “New Silk Road, New Dreams.” The series promises to “dig up the historical and cultural meaning of ...

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 ...

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.

Thus the rise of Israel as a key node in China’s Silk Road grand strategy not only elevates Jerusalem in China’s strategic calculus, but as Jean Michel Valantin of The Red Team Analysis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Now, the ancient cities of ...

FUZHOU, China—For hundreds of years, China used the Silk Road to ship porcelain, tea and other goods around the world. Now the nation is using a new incarnation of the old trading network to ...

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).

The multibillion-dollar "plan of the century" aims to create a network of trade routes, rail lines, ports and highways, linking countries on four continents. Nearly 70 countries have signed on.