Lightly populated, underdeveloped, and mostly authoritarian, the former Soviet republics that straddle the Silk Road’s antique caravan trails—Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan ...

The construction of a railroad line from China to Kyrgyzstan and further to Uzbekistan was ceremoniously initiated. This project will serve as an alternative route to the new Silk Road path that ...

Connecting the peoples of the East and West, it will become a new historical revival of the Great Silk Road," Japarov noted. The President of Kyrgyzstan also said that in the new year the country ...

China is actively seeking a route to Europe that bypasses Russia, driven by Western sanctions that obstruct trade and ...