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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US treasury secretary is in China to talk trade, anti-money laundering and Chinese ‘overproduction’
Jude Blanchette in AP — April 4, 2024
Column: Taiwan held an election. War didn’t break out. That’s good news for California and the world
Jude Blanchette in The Los Angeles Times — January 22, 2024
Xi, Biden and a $10t. cost of war over Taiwan
Jude Blanchette in The Jerusalem Post — January 12, 2024
Xi, Biden and the $10 Trillion Cost of War Over Taiwan
Jude Blanchette in Bloomberg News — January 8, 2024
US political moves, war planning risk destabilising Taiwan Strait, analysts say
Jude Blanchette in South China Morning Post — November 21, 2023
What a 21st Century Cold War Looks Like
Jude Blanchette in Bloomberg — November 18, 2023
Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia 11/17/2023
Jude Blanchette in Bloomberg — November 17, 2023
Biden and Xi, meeting in Silicon Valley, promise to work to avoid U.S.-China conflict
Jude Blanchette in LA Times — November 15, 2023
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Vietnam’s Great Power Hedge
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette, Michael J. Green, and Huong Le Thu — October 31, 2023
Book Event - Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Event — October 30, 2023
The Administrative Foundations of the Chinese Fiscal State
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette — October 26, 2023
Chinese Assessments of De-risking
Event — October 11, 2023
Japan’s Approach to De-Risking
Podcast Episode by Jude Blanchette and Michael J. Green — October 3, 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 — August 31, 2023