Joshua Kurlantzick is an American journalist from

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, United States. He is a Fellow for Southeast Asia at the

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Career

Kurlantzick was most recently a scholar at the

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, where he studied Southeast Asian politics and economics and China's relations with Southeast Asia, including Chinese investment, aid, and diplomacy. Previously, he was a fellow at the

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Center on Public Diplomacy and a fellow at the

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. He has also served as a columnist for ''

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'', a special correspondent for ''

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'', a senior correspondent for ''

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'', and a contributing writer for ''

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''. He also serves on the editorial board of ''

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''. He is the winner of the

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for journalism in Asia and was selected as a finalist for the Osborn Elliot Prize for journalism in Asia.

Authorship

Kurlantzick is the author of ''Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World'', which was nominated for the

's 2008

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. In December 2022, Kurlantzick published ''Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World''. In the book, Kurlantzick analyses China's use of

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campaigns,

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and

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References

External links

Expert Page at CFR.orgVideo discussion with Joshua Kurlantzick
on

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male journalists Loomis Chaffee School alumni {{US-academic-bio-stub