Jude Blanchette is an American foreign policy analyst and China specialist. He is the Distinguished Tang Chair in China Research and inaugural director of the China Research Center at

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. He served as Freeman Chair in China studies at the

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(CSIS) from August 2019 to December 2024.

Education

Blanchette holds a BA in economics from

Loyola University Maryland Loyola University Maryland is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in Baltimore, Maryland. Established as Loyola College in Maryland by John Early (educator), John Early and eight other members of the Society of Je ...

and a MA in modern Chinese studies from the

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Career

Blanchette was named RAND's Distinguished Tang Chair in China Research in December 2024. Prior to joining CSIS, Blanchette was engagement director at the

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's China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing and before that, assistant director of

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's 21st Century China Center. He is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by the

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's Center on US-China Relations.

Publications

Books

* China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong, ''

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'', 2019

Reports

* Building International Support for Taiwan, ''CSIS'', February 13, 2024 (co-authored with Ryan Hass and Lily McElwee)

Articles

* China Is in Denial About the War in Ukraine, ''

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'', August 13, 2024 * The Illusion of Great-Power Competition, ''

'', July 24, 2023 (co-authored with Christopher Johnstone) * The Taiwan Long Game, ''

'', December 20, 2022 (co-authored with Ryan Hass) * Party of One, ''

'', October 14, 2022 * China on the Offensive, ''

'', August 1, 2022 (co-authored with Bonny Lin) * Xi Jinping's Faltering Foreign Policy, ''

'', March 16, 2022 * China's Ukraine Crisis, ''

'', February 21, 2022 (co-authored with Bonny Lin) * Xi's Confidence Game, ''

'', November 23, 2021 * China's Afghanistan Dilemma, ''

'', September 13, 2021 (co-authored with Seth G. Jones) * China's Looming Succession Crisis, ''

'', July 20, 2021 (co-authored with

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) * Xi's Gamble, ''

'', June 22, 2021 * Why Xi's Power Grab Will Hurt China's Prospects for Reform, ''

'', November 14, 2017

U.S. Congressional testimonies

* Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Hearing on "An Assessment of the CCP's Economic Ambitions, Plans, and Metrics of Success" Panel II: "Understanding China's Economic Drivers and Ecosystem", April 15, 2020

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blanchette, Jude Living people American foreign policy writers Loyola University Maryland alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford United States–Asian relations American sinologists CSIS people Year of birth missing (living people) China–United States relations American international relations scholars RAND Corporation people