Jessica Chen Weiss is an American international relations scholar specializing in

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. She is currently the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS and Senior Fellow in Chinese Politics, Foreign Policy, and National Security at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis.

Early life and education

Weiss was born and grew up in

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. She obtained a bachelor of arts degree from

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in 2003 and attended the

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, graduating in 2008 with a PhD in Political Science.

Career

In 2014,

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

published her book ''Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations''. She was senior advisor to the

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's Policy Planning Staff from August 2021 to July 2022. She was the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University's Department of Government. She has advocated for the U.S. government to avoid an "overly confrontational" approach in its relations with China, and published an article in ''

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'' in August 2022 espousing this approach. Ian Johnson described that article in ''

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'' as catapulting her "to the front ranks of the growing number of China experts concerned that U.S. foreign policy suffers from an unhealthy focus on China as a threat." Weiss is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by

Asia Society The Asia Society is a 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle) and around the world (Hong Ko ...

's Center on US-China Relations and a board member of the

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. In July 2024, Weiss left Cornell to become the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Publications

Books

* '' Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations'' (

, 2014, )

Articles

* The Case Against the China Consensus, ''

'', September 16, 2024 * The Perils of Estrangement (in What Does America Want From China?), ''

'', May 30, 2024 (co-authored with

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) * Taiwan and the True Sources of Deterrence, ''

'', November 30, 2023 (co-authored with Bonnie S. Glaser and Thomas J. Christensen) *
Authoritarian Signaling, Mass Audiences, and Nationalist Protest in China
', 2013, ''

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References

External links

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