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Whoever controls the sea controls trade, and whoever controls trade controls the world.” Sir Walter Raleigh, an advisor to England’s Queen Elizabeth I, wrote in a 1615 essay that to defeat Spain and ...

Here are some of the best hotels travellers should visit today in Beijing, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Xi'an — four of China's ...

The case escalated over the weekend when a retired museum employee accused the museum's former director of orchestrating a large-scale theft and smuggling operation.