
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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China Is Full of Risks. So Why Can’t Corporate America Leave?
Jude Blanchette in New York Times — September 8, 2023
U.S. Officials Are Streaming to China. Will Beijing Return the Favor?
Jude Blanchette in New York Times — September 1, 2023
China wants to keep Russia in a ‘Goldilocks’ state — not too strong and not too weak
Jude Blanchette in CNBC — August 14, 2023
Next China: Disappearing Act
Jude Blanchette in Bloomberg News — July 28, 2023
After Ousting a Top Official, China Erases Him and Evades Questions
Jude Blanchette in The New York Times — July 27, 2023
A familiar face for the US as China's Wang returns as foreign minister
Jude Blanchette in Reuters — July 26, 2023
China replaces missing foreign minister Qin Gang
Jude Blanchette in Financial Times — July 25, 2023
China’s Foreign Minister Is Removed After a Month of Silence
Jude Blanchette in The New York Times — July 25, 2023
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Chinese Assessments of De-risking
Event by Jude Blanchette , Jacob Gunter , Lily McElwee , Janka Oertel , and Andrew Polk — October 11, 2023
Myanmar’s Closing
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette , Michael J. Green , and Erin L. Murphy — September 19, 2023


India’s Strategic Evolution
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette and Michael J. Green — September 5, 2023

China’s Economic Downturn: Structural, Cyclical, or Both?
Event by Scott Kennedy , Jude Blanchette , Zongyuan Zoe Liu , Nicholas Lardy , Logan Wright , and Lingling Wei — August 31, 2023


Multipolarity in Southeast Asia
Podcast Episode by Michael J. Green and Jude Blanchette — August 1, 2023

ASEAN's Future Under Great Power Rivalry
Podcast Episode by Michael J. Green and Jude Blanchette — July 11, 2023

How the CCP Finances its Global Ambitions
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — July 6, 2023
