by Gary Sands | May 26, 2015 | Monitor
Chinese construction on the previously submerged Hughes Reef. Photo: Tuoi Tre I had not given much thought to the flight plan of the airline I recently booked to go back to the U.S. from Vietnam, but recent events in the airspace over the South China Sea prompted an...
by raffaellopantucci | Jan 21, 2013 | Monitor
It has been an eventful weekend as the Algerian crisis appears to have finally wrapped up. I have been doing various bits of media, including a short interview that was used in this piece in the Sunday Telegraph, focusing in particular on the Algerian connection to...
by raffaellopantucci | Oct 18, 2012 | Monitor
A new post for CNN, this one expanding on some brief comments in my earlier letter to the Financial Times. I see it has inspired a certain amount of vitriol on their comments. The overall point here is to highlight the fact that a bad situation is being allowed to...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Sep 26, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeA reader wants to know what the Whirledview ex-diplomats would have done or said in the recent Case of the Benghazi Journal Revelations. I won/lost the coin toss, so here goes. But first, you need to know that the matter isn’t all that...
by raffaellopantucci | Jul 27, 2012 | Monitor
A new post on the eve of the Olympics for CNN. While it is a bit in contrast to the rather optimistic attitude that seems to have gripped London (and which I have to admit I am a bit caught up in from where I am!), it is intended as a horizon scanning exercise to look...