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A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago
The modern world’s pet cats are products of a long process of domestication and trade. It began some 10,000 years ago in ...
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Pet cats arrived in China via the Silk Road 1,400 years ago, ancient DNA study finds
How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats ...
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The Rise and Fall of America’s New Silk Road Strategy
On the eve of Beijing’s May 2017 Summit on its New Silk Road strategy and plans, historians may well ask how China was able to turn the tables on America in Eurasia. Just six years ago ...
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China’s new «Silk Road» needs to slim down, but it’s not dead
The project in Laos has been heavily criticized by opponents of the new Silk Road because of its financing. World Bank figures seem to corroborate this criticism. Laos’ public debt to economic ...
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What now for the New Silk Road?
It is a pity that China did not keep the name –Silk Road – something ... “The 'Belt and Road' cooperation is entering into a new stage,” the Chinese ambassador to the EU Zhang Ming ...
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Stories from the New Silk Road
From Kenya to Kazakhstan, there is a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs, ports, cities and countries. In four different locations, this series hears from those whose lives are being ...
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China’s First Domestic Cats Took the Silk Road 1,400 Years Ago, New Study Finds
Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...