Of these, the first from Peking to Lhasa and India is ... From Peking to Lhasa: the Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late Brig.-General George Pereira.

In the first instalment of a two-part commentary ... by a strange subdivision - the emergence of a powerful new Chinese empire of a kind unknown in previous world history and the walled withdrawal ...

Xi’s rule has seen Beijing’s influence explode in Africa and Indochina, with the Chinese empire using the economic conquest route to project power over places like Angola, Tanzania ...