At their apex, the Roman Empire and China’s Han Dynasty ruled over more than 120 million people combined. Their capitals bustled, their wealth swelled, and their armies stretched across continents.

Although the use of the Silk Roads would rise and fall, Rome and Han China experienced two additional periods of intense trade. During China’s Tang dynasty, from A.D. 618 to 907, ...

Third-century China got around the ancient world. They even made it to the Roman Empire, and wrote down their thoughts on these strange foreigners in the Weilüe, a third-century C.E. account of ...

Despite Rome's scepticism, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said cooperation with Italy under the Beijing-led Belt and Road initiative had been fruitful, with high-quality Italian products having ...

As a far more significant sign of the decline of Western influence, the Vatican raised China from a missionary field, wholly dependent upon Rome, to metropolitan status much like that of the U.S ...

China has gained international prestige because of its relations with the Vatican. The Holy See should now seek to obtain more concrete results from its deal with Beijing.

China Defies Rome Over Bishop's Post. Move by State-Backed Church Widens Rift With Vatican. May 14, 2006. By Charles Hutzler. BEIJING, May 14 -- China's state-approved Catholic Church welcomed the ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public remarks about one of the thorniest foreign policy issues facing his ...

ROME—The Vatican accused China of violating a power-sharing agreement on the appointment of bishops, expressing growing frustration over its relationship with Beijing as China seeks to tighten ...