And so it is with the Belt and Road Initiative. It is not only about the fact that the authors of the “Xinhua maps” partially just copied the old trade routes.

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

Why does any of this matter? Find a map and locate Uzbekistan. Note that it lies in the center of a strategic — and conflictive — part of the world. Uzbekistan lies athwart the old Silk Road ...

This is kind of where the Silk Road butted up against the Caspian Sea. And you might be able to hear a little bit of surf in the background. And it's a very off-the-map place.

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders.

A map (left) of the Silk Road during the Western Han Dynasty. Another map (right) showing the location of the newfound burial (red triangle). The black triangles are cinnabar mines.

Thanks to more than a trillion dollars of prospective investment-led by China’s $800 billion Belt and Road Initiative linking countries stretching between East Asia and Europe-the Silk Road i… ...

The Silk Road: How the ancient route is becoming a pathway to the future Recent infrastructure investments in Silk Road countries are putting the historic pathway back on the map. As Andrew ...

Thanks to more than a trillion dollars of prospective investment — led by China’s $800 billion Belt and Road Initiative linking countries stretching between East Asia and Europe — the Silk ...

Thanks to more than a trillion dollars of prospective investment-led by China’s $800 billion Belt and Road Initiative linking countries stretching between East Asia and Europe-the Silk Road is ...