Jude Blanchette

Freeman Chair in China Studies
Jude Blanchette

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, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, War on the Rocks, the Financial Times, and the Washington Post. 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 holds an MA in modern Chinese studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in economics from Loyola University in Maryland.

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Chinese Assessments of De-risking

How are Chinese scholars assessing recent U.S. and partner de-risking efforts? Join the Freeman Chair in China Studies and a panel of experts to unpack recently translated Chinese scholarship on this topic. 

Event by Jude Blanchette , Jacob Gunter , Lily McElwee , Janka Oertel , and Andrew Polk — October 11, 2023

The Asia Chessboard

Myanmar’s Closing

Mike and Jude are joined by Erin Murphy, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow for the Economics Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she is currently transitioning to the Asia Program.

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette , Michael J. Green , and Erin L. Murphy — September 19, 2023

CSIS The Asia Chess Board
Pekingology

Party of One

In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Chun Han Wong, a China reporter for the Wall Street Journal, to discuss his new book Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future.  

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — September 7, 2023

CSIS Pekingology
The Asia Chessboard

India’s Strategic Evolution

Mike and Jude are joined by C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute in Delhi and Visiting Research Professor and former Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore.

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette and Michael J. Green — September 5, 2023

CSIS The Asia Chess Board

China’s Economic Downturn: Structural, Cyclical, or Both?

Please join the CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics and the Freeman Chair in China Studies for a roundtable discussion on how best to analyze the Chinese economy with an eye to the future.

Event by Scott Kennedy , Jude Blanchette , Zongyuan Zoe Liu , Nicholas Lardy , Logan Wright , and Lingling Wei — August 31, 2023

Pekingology

Reshaping Corporate China

In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Thomas Gatley, China Strategist at Gavekal Dragonomics, to discuss his recent report “Reshaping Corporate China.” 

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — August 25, 2023

CSIS Pekingology
Pekingology

How Loyal is the PLA?

In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by Eric Hundman, senior research analyst at BluePath Labs, to discuss his article “Fearing Hardships and Fatigue? Refusals to Serve in China’s Military, 2009-2018,” which was recently published in the Journal of Contemporary China.

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — August 10, 2023

CSIS Pekingology
The Asia Chessboard

Multipolarity in Southeast Asia

Mike and Jude are joined by Thomas Parks, Country Representative for Thailand with The Asia Foundation and author of the recently published book Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future: Averting a New Cold War.

Podcast Episode by Michael J. Green and Jude Blanchette — August 1, 2023

CSIS The Asia Chess Board
The Asia Chessboard

ASEAN's Future Under Great Power Rivalry

This week, Mike and Jude are joined by Mr. Choi Shing Kwok, Director & Chief Executive Officer of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, and head of the ASEAN Studies Centre and Singapore APEC Study Centre, to discuss ASEAN perspectives on issues in the Indo-Pacific. 

 

Podcast Episode by Michael J. Green and Jude Blanchette — July 11, 2023

CSIS The Asia Chess Board
Pekingology

How the CCP Finances its Global Ambitions

In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a fellow for international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the new book Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions. 

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — July 6, 2023

CSIS Pekingology