Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennium ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has ...

CHONGQING China (Reuters) - China, already at the centre of world trade, plans to spend billions of dollars to revive intercontinental land routes and develop maritime links to expand commerce and ...

China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” often conjures up mental images of railways, roads, and ports – heavy infrastructure used to transport goods and people. But there are many subsets of the BRI, ...

Newly transferred fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts on view in Beijing on May 18 Fu Tian / China News Service / VCG via Getty Images In the early hours of May 18, an airplane touched down in ...

The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in modern-day Turkey, when Anatolians tamed and befriended Near Eastern wildcats.