
Jude Blanchette holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, he was engagement director at The Conference Board’s China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing, where he researched China’s political environment with a focus on the workings of the Communist Party of China and its impact on foreign companies and investors. Prior to working at The Conference Board, Blanchette was the assistant director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego. Blanchette has written for a range of publications, including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, and his Chinese translations have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. His book, China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. Blanchette is a public intellectual fellow at the National Committee on United States-China Relations and serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society. He is also a senior advisor at Martin+Crumpton Group, a geopolitical risk advisory based in Arlington, Virginia. He holds an M.A. in modern Chinese studies from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in economics from Loyola University in Maryland.
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Xi set to host Blinken in signal of China-U.S. detente
Jude Blanchette in Nikkei Asia — February 3, 2023
Cautious expectations for upcoming China visit by US Secretary of State Blinken
Jude Blanchette in The Straits Times — February 3, 2023
Significant Breakthroughs Unlikely as Blinken Visits Beijing
Jude Blanchette in The Irish Times — February 2, 2023
Blinken visit unlikely to fix US-China differences, but Russia a possible area of progress: analysts
Scott Kennedy and Jude Blanchette in The South China Morning Post — January 31, 2023
A General Warned of an Impending War with China. Airmen Under His Command Say it Was 'Inappropriate'
Scott Kennedy and Jude Blanchette in Military.com — January 31, 2023
Expectations Low for Blinken's China Trip to Reset Relations
Jude Blanchette in Voice of America — January 31, 2023
Making China Pay if It Attacks Taiwan
Gerard DiPippo and Jude Blanchette in The Dispatch — January 31, 2023
When might China invade Taiwan? Depends who you ask
Jude Blanchette in RFA — January 30, 2023
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To Deter Beijing, What the United States Says Matters
Commentary by Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass — February 2, 2023

Party Building in China's Institutions
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — February 2, 2023

Assessing the Future Trajectory of China-Japan Relations
Event by Jude Blanchette , Christopher B. Johnstone , Bonny Lin , and Rumi Aoyama — January 31, 2023

Press Briefing: Previewing Secretary Blinken’s China Visit
Event by Bonny Lin , Jude Blanchette , and Scott Kennedy — January 30, 2023

Assessing Hong Kong’s Future as a Global Business Hub
Event by Jude Blanchette — January 25, 2023

Book Event - Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise
Event by Jude Blanchette and Susan Shirk — January 20, 2023

China’s Influence and Investments in Africa
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — January 19, 2023

Japan Steps Up
Podcast Episode by Michael J. Green , Jude Blanchette , and Christopher B. Johnstone — January 17, 2023

Indo-Pacific Forecast 2023
Event by Victor Cha , Emily Benson , Jude Blanchette , Charles Edel , Matthew P. Goodman , Christopher B. Johnstone , Scott Kennedy , Ellen Kim , and Bonny Lin , Lily McElwee , Erin L. Murphy , Yuko Nakano , Gregory B. Poling , William Alan Reinsch , Nicholas Szechenyi , Raymond Vickery , Kurt Campbell , Ambassador Taeyong Cho , Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez — January 12, 2023

