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Welcoming Dan Blumenthal

By William Inboden Over the coming days and weeks we will be expanding the ranks of Shadow Government contributors. Today, we are proud to introduce the first of these, Dan Blumenthal. Dan is a veteran China hand and Asia expert, whose current roles include being a commissioner (and former vice-chairman) of the U.S.-China Economic and ...

By , the executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and the author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.

By William Inboden

Over the coming days and weeks we will be expanding the ranks of Shadow Government contributors. Today, we are proud to introduce the first of these, Dan Blumenthal.

Dan is a veteran China hand and Asia expert, whose current roles include being a commissioner (and former vice-chairman) of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He also codirects AEI’s "Tocqueville on China" Project, exploring various aspects of civil society amid China’s ongoing evolutions. Dan served at the Pentagon from 2002-2004, including as senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Secretary of Defense’s Office of International Security Affairs. His expertise includes many aspects of the Middle Kingdom and points beyond, and we are excited to have him on board.

Will Inboden is the executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, both at the University of Texas at Austin, a distinguished scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.

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