Jonas Parello-Plesner

Jonas Parello-Plesner
Nationality	Danish
Occupation	Security analyst
Employer	Alliance of Democracies

Jonas Parello-Plesner (born 21 November 1973) is a Danish security policy analyst currently serving as director of the Alliance of Democracies. ^[1] He is also a visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund and a non-resident senior fellow at Hudson Institute. ^{[2] [3]}

Career

Parello-Plesner is a former diplomat for Denmark specializing on China, the USA and Europe.

Publications

He co-authored China's Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad, which describes how China's strategic thinking is affected by having Chinese workers and companies on the front lines in fragile states with concrete studies of Chinese evacuations in Libya in 2011, Sudan in 2013 and Yemen in 2015. ^[4]

His 2025 book The Battle for Taiwan was given a largely positive review by the Taipei Times, however they noted a number of errors and that the English language book was less relevant than its earlier published Czech version because of the reelection of Donald Trump among other factors. ^[5]

References

1. "About the foundation - A non-profit organization founded by Anders Fogh". allianceofdemocracies.org. Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
2. "Jonas Parello-Plesner | German Marshall Fund of the United States". www.gmfus.org. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
3. "Jonas Parello-Plesner | Hudson". www.hudson.org. 2024-02-11. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
4. "China's Strong Arm: Protecting Citizens and Assets Abroad". IISS.
5. Barron, James. "Book review: A Danish diplomat's view of Taiwan". taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. Retrieved 28 May 2025.