Zachary Iziah Smith, an American travel blogger, poses for a photo at Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, April 11, 2025.

After leaving prison, Ulbricht regularly posted to social media, thanking Trump and calling ... who founded the Silk Road marketplace on the dark web in 2011, had been in custody since his arrest ...

Trump says he's pardoning Ross Ulbricht because he despises the prosecutors and wants to thank the Libertarian movement that rallied for Ulbricht's freedom for voting for Trump.

Ulbricht founded Silk Road in 2011 as an online market dedicated ... 2025 In a post on social media announcing the pardon, Trump argued that Ulbricht was a victim of “the modern day weaponizatio ...

In contrast to America surrendering its New Silk Road strategy, Beijing was serious ... Wall Street onboard for our finance plans and the media onboard for our plan to mobilize public opinion.

As China’s digital infrastructure spreads through the Digital Silk Road, developing economies could adopt Chinese AI as the ...

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 ...

In this final episode, they learn how Cairo became an influential cultural hub, as the Silk Road connected Egypt to China, Russia, India, Iraq and the Levantine merchants, controlling the spice ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

Unlike most first-time foreign tourists to China, who flock to popular destinations like Beijing, Shanghai, or ...