BEIJING — China’s plan for a modern Silk Road of railways, ports and other facilities linking Asia with Europe hit a $14 billion pothole in Pakistan. Pakistan’s relations with Beijing are so close ...

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that he was going to rebuild the Silk Road. China has pledged billions to the Belt and Road Initiative, and Morgan Stanley estimates spending will ...

In recent years, Uzbekistan has embarked on an ambitious nationwide tourism boom transforming much of the country. But its ...

Iran has expressed strong interest in joining the Silk Road initiative alongside Pakistan and China. The move aims to enhance ...

A journey of 8,000 kilometres begins with a single step. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek is walking the modern-day Silk Road, talking to people in the pursuit of what he calls "slow ...

BEIJING—China’s plan for a modern Silk Road of railways, ports and other facilities linking Asia with Europe hit a $14 billion pothole in Pakistan.

My recent visit to Istanbul and Ankara with a group of Chinese journalists started with curiosity and confusion about Turkey, an unfamiliar country at the far end of the ancient Silk Road.

China was the original source of silk about 5,000 years ago, and while silk is ubiquitous today - China is expected to export more than $31-billion (U.S.) worth of silk by 2010 for everything from ...

Ancient Threads, Newly Woven: Recent Art From China's Silk Road, at the Meridian International Center, 1630 Crescent Pl. NW, through June 27. Wednesdays through Sundays, 2-5 p.m. Free.