A new piece for Chatham House’s magazine The World Today, drawing on a topic that has come up repeatedly during interviews with academics in China. The fact that they love British foreign policy so much. It is sometimes hard to tell whether they are simply flattering me with these sorts of statements, but I feel [...]
Posts Tagged ‘shanghai expo’
Britain and China: Being Friendly
Posted: November 29, 2010 in World TodayTags: british pavilion, China, shanghai expo, UK, UK election, UK foreign policy, UK trade
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Around the Shanghai Expo: Palestinian Pavilion
Posted: August 6, 2010 in InterpreterTags: arafat, China, palestine, shanghai expo
This is going to be the last in this series on the Expo for the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter blog, this time looking at the Palestinian pavilion. I have enjoyed doing this, and may write something larger somewhere on this subject. In the meantime, I owe eagle-eyed David for helping point out some of the detail [...]
Around the Shanghai Expo: Australian Pavilion
Posted: August 4, 2010 in InterpreterTags: australia, China, International relations, shanghai expo
My latest in the series I have been doing for the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter blog, this time in their home Australian pavilion. At least another of these coming, and I remain open to commissions if anyone has a particular pavilion they would like to see more of. Use the contact page to get in touch. [...]
Around the Shanghai Expo: Afghanistan Pavilion
Posted: July 19, 2010 in InterpreterTags: Afghanistan, China, shanghai expo
My latest missive from the Shanghai Expo for the Interpreter – this one took a while to get there for a variety of technical reasons. At least one more to come in this series. Around the Shanghai Expo: Afghanistan Pavilion by Raffaello Pantucci – 19 July 2010 6:35PM Raffaello Pantucci is a Visiting Scholar at [...]
Around the Shanghai Expo: Iran pavilion
Posted: July 6, 2010 in InterpreterTags: China, International relations, iran, nuclear, shanghai expo
My latest in a series from the Expo for the Interpreter, this time looking at the Iranian pavilion. There was actually a lot more to tell about the pavilion which I didn’t have space to include – it is a very crowded (with stuff) and colorful place and is amongst the better ones I have [...]
Around the Shanghai Expo: Pakistan pavilion
Posted: June 21, 2010 in InterpreterTags: China, Pakistan, shanghai expo, Sino-Pakistan relations
And another in this series, this time at the Pakistani pavilion. The subject of China-Pakistan is something that I have a longer piece coming out about soon – have been doing some interesting research on the topic while I am out here. Around the Shanghai Expo: Pakistan pavilion By Raffaello Pantucci - 21 June 2010 9:15AM [...]
Around the Shanghai Expo: British pavilion
Posted: June 20, 2010 in InterpreterTags: China, shanghai expo, soft power, UK
This is posted a little late, as I just realized that it had been posted before the previous post about the DPRK pavilion. Also, having done this, I have now managed to get into the British pavilion. No matter, here it is now, more in this series coming. Around the Shanghai Expo: British pavilion By [...]
Around the Shanghai expo: DPRK pavilion
Posted: June 18, 2010 in InterpreterTags: China, north korea, shanghai expo
This is a slight change of pace from recent stuff. For those who don’t know, I spend a lot of time in Shanghai these days where the World Expo is in full swing. I have been going there a fair bit, and was asked by the Lowy Institute of Australia’s Interpreter blog to write some [...]
