The freight train from China that pulled into Tehran a little over a month ago created history by becoming the first train to revive the ancient Silk Route between China and Iran. Ferrying 32 ...

Cultural diplomacy is a significant activity for symphony orchestras. The Boston Symphony Orchestra toured Russia in 1956. The Philadelphia Orchestra went to China in 1973. The New York ...

The Silk Road wasn’t a single road, but a vast network of land and sea trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean. This video unpacks how goods, ideas, religions, and even diseases moved ...

The first train connecting Iran and China loaded with Chinese goods arrived in Tehran Monday, reviving the ancient Silk Road trade route and highlighting the economic possibilities for Iran since ...

China, Iran and the New Silk Road Gabriel Domínguez12/15/2015 Iran is arguably one of China's closest partners in the Middle East.

The train, also referred to as Silk Road train, has passed through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Iran, travelling a distance of 10,399 kilometers. It had left Yiwu city in East China's Zhejiang ...

To sum it all up, for China, its strategic alliance with Iran is above all about Pipeline-istan, the Asian energy security grid, and the new Silk Road. That’s about energy and trade.

TEHRAN, Nov. 05 (MNA) – Iran’s Vice President Mohammad Mokhber says the country has a “unique” position in China’s giant New Silk Road project, also known as the Belt and Road Initiative.

For years, Iranian planners lived with the uncomfortable reality that GPS was ultimately controlled by the Pentagon ...

On Thursday, China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency unveiled an ongoing feature entitled “New Silk Road, New Dreams.” The series promises to “dig up the historical and cultural meaning of ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The memories of and inspiration from the ancient Silk Road, a trade route stretching from East Asia to Europe, have provided an attractive platform for cultural ...