Dan Blumenthal

Dan Blumenthal has served in and advised the U.S. government on China issues for more than a decade. Before joining the American Enterprise Institute, he served as senior director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the U.S. Department of Defense. He served as a commissioner on the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission from 2006 to 2012, and he was vice chairman of the commission in 2007. He also served on the Academic Advisory Board of the congressional U.S.-China Working Group. He is the author of “The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State” (AEI Press, November 2020) and co-author of “An Awkward Embrace: The United States and China in the 21st Century” (AEI Press, November 2012).

Blumenthal has a juris doctor from Duke Law School, an M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. He also attended Capital Normal University in Beijing, China, where he focused on Chinese language studies.