Western countries are underestimating China’s new Silk Road project, which is an important scheme, despite concerns it is too China-centric and so far lacking in opportunities for foreign firms, Germany’s ambassador to China said on Thursday.
The Alibaba Group signaled on Thursday that for all the global worries about China’s rising debt and bloated state industries, its economy still enjoys a strong pillar of support: online shoppers.
A U.S. business lobby in China said on Thursday that Washington should use leverage afforded by China’s desire to avoid trade frictions with the United States ahead of its Communist Party Congress this fall in order to fix market access discrepancies.
China’s ambitions to dominate new energy technologies are unfolding at the site of an abandoned coal mine about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northwest of Shanghai.
If there were just one Chinese in the world, he could be the lonely sage contemplating life and nature whom we come across on the misty mountains of Chinese scrolls. If there were two Chinese in the world, a man and a woman, lo, the family system is born. And if there were three Chinese, they would form a tight-knit, hierarchically organized bureaucracy.
China's foreign ministry said the claim by a joint investigation that China was “secretly infiltrating” Australia is baseless.
India's primary concern about the initiative is the “flagship” China Pakistan Economic Corridor leg that runs through Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Despite this concern, an OBOR white paper in May declared CPEC as a flagship project.
‘Kneeling Archer (detail),’ Qin dynasty (221–206 B.C.), earthenware, H. 491⁄16 in. (122 cm). Excavated in 1977, pit no. 2, mausoleum complex of Qin Shihuangdi (d. 210 B.C.), Lintong, Shaanxi Province. Qin Shihuangdi Mausoleum Site Museum, Lintong; on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition ‘Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties’ through July 16.
‘Burial Suit of Dou Wan,’ Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 9), jade (nephrite) with gold wire, L. 67¾ in. (172 cm). Excavated in 1968, tomb no. 2 (Dou Wan), Mancheng, Hebei Province. Hebei Provincial Museum, Shijiazhuang; on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition ‘Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties’ through July 16.
‘Chariot Model (Modern Replica after Qin Originals),’ Qin dynasty (221–206 B.C.), bronze with pigments, H. 59 in. (150 cm). Qin Shihuangdi Mausoleum Site Museum, Lintong; on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition ‘Age of Empires: Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties’ through July 16.
