Center for Strategic Communication

Central Asia: The View from China

Further catching up on delinquent old posting, here is a piece I wrote for the EU’s foreign and security policy think tank EUISS. Part of a series they did on Central Asia, and bigger work they have been doing recently in support of the Latvian Presidency of the...

China’s inexorable drive into Central Asia

A new piece for China Outlook, an excellent online magazine that I have actually written for before, but failed to post here for some reason. For my previous piece for them, please see here, it looked at foreign investment into Xinjiang and the difficulties the...

China’s Domestic Insurgency

New piece for my institutional home RUSI, looking at Xinjiang again. Been travelling in the region, so more to come soon. China’s Domestic Insurgency RUSI Analysis, 23 Jul 2014 By Raffaello Pantucci, Senior Research Fellow Five years on from the most lethal rioting...

China and the Middle East

A slight sideways step for me, though if you read it you will see there is some links to other stuff I have done, this is a paper commissioned by the Europe-China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN), an EU vehicle that funds research on China for European...

Urumqi Attack

Another piece that was published in Chinese this week, this time for BBC 中文 about the incident in Urumqi this past week as Xi Jinping was finishing up his tour of the province. I have re-published the Chinese at the top and the English version below. I did a few...