China’s far west region of Xinjiang is seeking closer ties and cross-border cooperation with Pakistan and Central Asian countries in a bid to counter US sanctions and consolidate its role as a gateway under the Belt and Road Initiative. Khunjerab port – the sole border crossing connecting China and Pakistan – in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous…
China is keen to expand energy cooperation with Turkmenistan, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday. Wang met his counterpart Rashid Meredov, who is also Turkmenistan’s vice-president, on the sidelines of the China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Chengdu, state news agency Xinhua reported. Wang also said China was willing to further expand the scale…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has started his visit to the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan and arrived at the venue of an international conference he is due to speak at later on Friday, video released by the Kremlin showed. The conference in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat is expected to be attended by…
The Golden Age of exploration is long gone – or so we tend to think. All that’s left to investigate on our long-suffering planet are the murky depths of our oceans – and perhaps a few scraps of jungle. In this, the era of the sat nav and Google – when everything is accessible at…