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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The Asia Chessboard

Beijing's Overreach

Mike and Jude are joined by Dr. Susan Shirk, Founding Chair of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Overreach: How China Derailed its Peaceful Rise, which examines the evolution of China’s domestic and foreign policy over the last 15 years. 

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette and Michael J. Green — June 2, 2023

CSIS The Asia Chess Board

Chinese Assessments of Countersanctions Strategies

Please join the Interpret: China project and the CSIS Economics Program for an expert panel discussion of Chinese countersanctions strategies. 

Event by Jude Blanchette , Gerard DiPippo , Martin Chorzempa , Barry Naughton , and Maria Shagina — May 16, 2023

Pekingology

How Information Flows Impact Decision Making

In this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair Jude Blanchette is joined by Tyler Jost to discuss how China’s bureaucratic structure and politics impacts leader decision making.  

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — May 11, 2023

CSIS Pekingology

Chinese Assessments of the Soviet Union's Collapse

Please join the Interpret: China project for a discussion of the lessons the Chinese Communist Party is drawing from the fall of the Soviet Union.

Event by Jude Blanchette , Cheng Chen , Martin Dimitrov , Jeremy Friedman , and Yinan He — May 2, 2023

Pekingology

Economic Dynamics of a Cross-Strait Crisis

In this episode of Pekingology, Jude Blanchette is joined by Gerard Dipippo and Andrew Polk to discuss the economic and financial dynamics of a possible Taiwan Strait Crisis. 

Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette , Gerard DiPippo , and Andrew Polk — April 13, 2023

CSIS Pekingology