Jeannette Chu

Senior Associate (Non-resident), Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics

Jeannette L. Chu is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She currently serves as the vice president for national security policy at the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) and the executive director of NFTC's Alliance for National Security and Competitiveness. She advises and advocates for the business community on national security issues, including export controls, sanctions, forward technologies, foreign investment security, and strategic competition with China. Concurrently, she is also a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to the NFTC, Ms. Chu was a senior managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she led a multidisciplinary team in advising clients on national security regulatory compliance matters. Ms. Chu previously served as a senior adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce. From 2005 through 2010, Ms. Chu served as the senior export control attaché at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, China, and was the first officer-in-charge of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service offices in Guangzhou and Beijing, serving from 1997 through 2005. Ms. Chu brings over 24 years of law enforcement and investigative experience. Ms. Chu received her BA in political science from American University.

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China’s Great Tech Leap Forward and the Implications for the United States

Scott Kennedy presents his new report, The Power of Innovation, arguing that China’s high-tech advances have strengthened its global influence and that governments must respond pragmatically to manage risks and seize opportunities.

Event — March 2, 2026

Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit

This collection of brief comments by several CSIS China experts reflects substantial anxieties about the state of U.S.-China relations and the potential downsides to possible agreements reached during a potential Trump-Xi meeting on the sidelines of APEC.

Commentary by Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco — October 6, 2025

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Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit

An audio version of “⁠Experts React: U.S.-China Relations Heading into a Likely Summit⁠,” a new Commentary by CSIS’s Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs.

Podcast Episode by Thomas J. Christensen, Jeannette Chu, Brian Hart, Scott Kennedy, Henrietta Levin, and Ilaria Mazzocco — October 6, 2025