by raffaellopantucci | Mar 14, 2016 | Monitor
And now another (very short piece) for the South China Morning Post, this time looking at the implications to Russia of the opening up of Iran and what this means for the Silk Road Economic Belt vision. China’s new silk road is designed to cut Russia out of Eurasian...
by raffaellopantucci | Jul 20, 2015 | Monitor
Finally posting my second piece from last week around the SCO Summit, this time for the South China Morning Post. Focuses more on the China-Russia side of things. Beyond this, spoke to the Independent about the elusive Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, the Daily Mail about ISIS...
by raffaellopantucci | May 20, 2014 | Monitor
A new op-ed in the South China Morning Post with Lifan looking at China and Russia’s relationship and China’s foreign policy more grandly as part of the discussion around the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA)...
by raffaellopantucci | Apr 13, 2014 | Monitor
An earlier version of this piece appeared in the South China Morning Post and was re-posted on China in Central Asia, however, this expanded version was done for my institutional home RUSI. An interesting topic a bit adjacent to my core interests, an aspect I may...
by raffaellopantucci | Jul 5, 2013 | Monitor
And a final update for this evening, this time an op-ed I had appear in this week’s South China Morning Post focusing on the grim troubles in Xinjiang this past month. More on this coming soon, and I did a number of media interviews about this. Xinjiang violence...