This story appears in the June 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world economy in the ninth century had two powerful engines. One was Tang dynasty China, an empire stretching from ...

The march aims to commemorate the 2009 Urumchi massacre and to call for meaningful action against China's ongoing campaign of colonization, Uyghur genocide, and occupation in East Turkistan ...

China’s holdings of Treasuries have fallen to their lowest level since 2009, as Beijing holds more of its US government bonds through lower-profile accounts and diversifies into alternative assets.