A key pillar of Xi Jinping’s policy agenda is the fortification of China’s economic and financial system in the face of what he has described as US-led “containment, encirclement and suppression”. This talk will explore the elements of this policy agenda and its implications for the United States and Australia.

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.

Drinks reception at 5pm for 5:30pm start.