Historian Peter Frankopan has written a brillant follow up to his bestseller «The Silk Roads». In the three years since its release the world has changed at an enormous pace. We asked him how the BRI plays into these recent developments.
It's not just the 300 events in 26 sports over 16 days that made the Olympics exciting. It's also the scandals, specifically the Asian ones that kept viewers hooked on Olympics news.
Alim Qasimov, Azerbaijan's best-known singer, and his daughter Fargana Qasimova perform with a quartet of virtuosic instrumentalists at Asia Society New York.