Each conference should have at least one brain-disabling paper. You know, the one during which you doze off to recharge your mental batteries, prepare your own paper which will be in the next panel, ...

China’s ancient capital of Chang’an (today known as Xi’an) is the start of one of Unesco’s world heritage “Silk Roads” routes. Credit: Xi’an image via Shutterstock.com China’s “One Belt One Road” ...

Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road were traversed by Marco Polo, the foundations for these trans-Asian interaction networks were being carved by ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Rachel Brown is a research associate in Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign ...