China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Join CSIS for a discussion with ...

What is the future of silk, this material that humans have coveted for many thousands of years? What is its past? It’s a fiber made by spiders, some moths, and even certain mollusks. Archeological ...

MARRAKECH, Morocco – It’s morning under the Atlas Mountains and publishing legend Alexandra Pringle is taking a savage blue pencil to a very nice paragraph. At least I thought it was a very nice ...

I just finished Aarathi Prasad's new book, Silk. The author, a molecular geneticist, and bioarcheologist raised in the Caribbean, wore silk saris all her youth. Her book explains silk's origins, ...

The Havighurst Center focused on the historical and contemporary cultures of the Silk Road during the academic years 2005-6 and 2006-7. As part of that focus, 15 Miami faculty received a ...

This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine‘s 10th anniversary print edition. Silk Road, the online marketplace named for the historic network of trade routes established during the Han ...

China’s Digital Silk Road has emerged as a strategic avenue to circumvent mounting U.S.-led barriers to its high-tech development, offering an alternative model for digital globalization that ...

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Finding omens of American decline on a long walk across Asia. By Paul Salopek Mr. Salopek, a writer for National Geographic, is at work on a book about his journey around the world. YANGON, Myanmar — ...

There cannot be many international crime leaders inspired by “The Princess Bride”, a cult children’s fantasy movie released in 1987. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, the very first ...