Rerouting History: From Suez to the Arctic Once upon a time, if you were mapping global trade, your pen would glide through the Middle East and North Africa. Cairo. Haifa. Dubai. Aden. The Suez Canal ...

As Arctic multilateralism fractures over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s approach to the region is in need of a rethink. There is a sizeable gap between China’s ambitions for the PSR ...

According to Marc Lanteigne, a professor of political science at the Arctic University of Norway, "China has been trying to rework what the Polar Silk Road is all about and it has also started to ...

The China's Arctic Expedition from June 1999--September 1999 conducted by Chinese scientists covered nearly all relevant scientific fields, including the ocean, biological species, the atmosphere ...

China is expected to redefine its Arctic policy – including an ambition to become a great polar power by 2030 – amid growing scrutiny from far northern countries and a possible US-Russia ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...

There is a sizeable gap between China’s ambitions for the PSR and its actual capabilities and accomplishments in the Arctic – and the gap has widened since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Arctic Silk Road is a £240 billion megaproject led by Russia and China, and it is has been hailed as "the future of international trade." The ambitious plan aims to create a faster and more ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping first raised the idea of the "Polar Silk Road" in Moscow in 2017, when he unveiled a series of plans with Russia in the Arctic to be incorporated into China's Belt and ...

In our new photography exhibition The Polar Silk Road, Gregor shines a light on the human-made structures scattered across the vast and isolated Arctic landscape and what they can tell us about the ...

This photo taken in December 2024 shows "Three Gorges Antarctic Eye," a 3.2-meter aperture radio/millimeter-wave telescope, at China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica. [Photo/Xinhua] WUHAN ...

Russia and China ... the Arctic," the statement reads. The sides are also seeking to advance their work to link the development plans for the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road ...