We were in Niding, a tiny hamlet cradled by the mountains of northern Yunnan, in the southwest of China, drinking yak ... mule-drawn caravans plying the old trade route were still common, the ...

like China today, mass-produced trade goods and exported them by sea. Working in shifts until the monsoon stopped them, a team of divers retrieved the ancient artifacts. The treasure—much of it ...

[Photo/Xinhua] Xinjiang was known as Xiyu, or the Western Regions, in ancient China. Following its unification ... with ancient trade routes between the Western Regions and the Central Plains ...

The current trade tensions between the US and China have an air of familiarity dating back to 2018, under the first Trump ...