Silk Roads historian Peter Frankopan puts China's ambitions in perspective

The Oxford historian and best-selling chronicler of the Silk Roads explains to Alan Philps why China is not building an empire and talk of a new Cold War is mistaken

The World Today

Published 26 September 2019

Updated 4 November 2020 — 5 minute READ

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