Gordon G. Chang

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Gordon G. Chang
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Born
Gordon Guthrie Chang

1951 (age 69–70)
New Jersey, U.S.
EducationCornell University (BA, JD)
OccupationLawyer, author, television commentator, speaker
Spouse(s)Lydia Tam
Chinese name
Chinese章家敦
Websitewww.gordonchang.com

Gordon Guthrie Chang (born 1951) is a columnist, author, and lawyer.[1] He is widely known for his book The Coming Collapse of China.

In 1976, Chang graduated from the Cornell Law School. He then lived in Mainland China and Hong Kong for close to two decades, where he worked as Partner and Counsel at the U.S. international law firms Baker & McKenzie and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, respectively.

Chang has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the CIA, the State Department, and the Pentagon, and has testified before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Early life and education[]

Chang was born in New Jersey to a Chinese father and an American mother of Scottish ancestry.[2] His father is from Rugao, Jiangsu, China.[3]

Chang graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, in 1969, and served as class president in his senior year. Four years later, he graduated from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. Thereafter, in 1976, Chang graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from the Cornell Law School.[1]

Career[]

Chang lived and worked in Mainland China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as counsel to the international American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the U.S. international law firm Baker & McKenzie. Chang has been elected twice as a trustee of Cornell University.[4][when?]

Chinese influence[]

Chang has appeared before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission among others.[5] He has warned that Chinese students attending U.S. colleges and universities have become the long arm of Chinese totalitarianism and that Chinese students, professors, and scientists have become “nontraditional collectors” of intelligence for China.

As reported by The Cornell Daily Sun, Chang said that students from China suspiciously probe U.S. universities' faculties, "engage in abusive conduct and harassment with other students, heckle criticizers of China and pressure universities to suspend activities. Their demands to remove research for political concerns infringe on academic freedom."[4] Further, Chang has said that China is not trying to compete with the United States within the Westphalian order, but to overthrow that order altogether.[6]

U.S.-China "cold tech war"[]

In his book The Great U.S.-China Tech War (2020), Chang posits that China and the United States are involved in what he terms as a "cold tech war", with the winner being able to dominate the twenty-first century. He notes that a decade ago, China was not considered a tech contender, but Chinese leaders have subsequently made their regime a tech powerhouse, with some now finding China to be a leader, with America lagging behind in critical areas. Chang advocates mobilization for the U.S. to regain the control of cutting-edge technologies it once had.[7]

Collapse of China[]

As the author of The Coming Collapse of China,[5] since 2001 Chang has repeatedly said that the Chinese government would eventually collapse.[8][9][10] Chang also says that China is in a "new dot-com bubble", adding that the rapid growth by China is contradicted by various internal factors, including decrease in population growth as well as slowing of retail sales.[11] In a separate interview, he remarked that China achieved its 149.2 percent trade surplus with the United States through "lying, cheating, and stealing" and that if China decided to realize its threat, expressed since August 2007, to sell its Treasuries, it would actually hurt its own economy which is reliant on exports to the United States: the economy of the United States would be hurt by a sell-off of Treasuries, causing the United States to buy less from China, which would in turn hurt the Chinese economy.[12]

Other and related activities[]

In Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World (2006), Chang says that North Korea is most likely to target Japan, not South Korea. He also says that North Korean nuclear ambitions could be forestalled if there were concerted multinational diplomacy, with some "limits to patience" backed up by threat of an all-out Korean war.

Chang has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the CIA, the State Department, and the Pentagon, and has appeared before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs.[5] He is a former contributor at The Daily Beast.[13] His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, National Review, and Barron’s among others, and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, Bloomberg Television, and others, as well on as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.[5] Chang has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities.[6]

Chang often criticized South Korea's President Moon Jae-in's term. Chang criticized Moon Jae-in, calling him "dangerous," and said that Moon should be considered "North Korea's agent."[14] Chang also asserted that Moon Jae-in is "subverting freedom, democracy, and South Korea."[14]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chang praised the U.S. for acting 'very, very quickly' in response to the epidemic,[15] while concluding that China was responsible for spreading the coronavirus, and that this means it's very difficult to cooperate with a country that deliberately infected and killed Americans.[6]

Chang is a contributing editor for 19FortyFive, an online international affairs website.[16]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "author bio". gordonchang.com. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Gordon Chang's Story of Belonging". TVOntario. 22 March 2009. Retrieved 9 December 2018 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Chang, Gordon G. (29 September 2013). "$3.9 Trillion Of Local Gov Debt In China . . . And Counting". Forbes. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Li, Karen (25 October 2018). "Cornell Political Union Debates Chinese Influence on U.S. Campuses". The Cornell Daily Sun. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Gordon G. Chang." Kitco Media. Retrieved on December 16, 2020.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Interview with Gordon Chang." Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved on December 16, 2020.
  7. ^ "The Great U.S.-China Tech War." Google Books. Retrieved on December 22, 2020.
  8. ^ Chang, Gordon G. (29 December 2011). "The Coming Collapse of China: 2012 Edition". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  9. ^ "China's Collapse Is Coming, More So Now Than Ever - Gordon Chang". Kitco News. 23 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2018 – via YouTube.
  10. ^ "US rejects China Dalai Lama warning". Al Jazeera English. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
  11. ^ Macke, Jeff (24 June 2011). "China Is The New Dot-Com Bubble: Gordon Chang". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  12. ^ Nesto, Matt (27 June 2011). "Chinese Piracy Costs US 1 Million Jobs: Gordon Chang". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  13. ^ "Author Page Gordon Chang". TheDailyBeast.com. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  14. ^ Jump up to: a b Gordon G. Chang [@GordonGChang] (8 October 2018). "#MoonJaein could be a #NorthKorea agent, yet whether he is or not we should treat him as one. He is subverting freedom, democracy, and #SouthKorea. He is dangerous" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-29 – via Twitter.
  15. ^ Creitz, Charles. "Gordon Chang praises US for acting 'very, very quickly' against coronavirus spread". Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  16. ^ "Meet Our Editorial Team". 19FortyFive. Retrieved 2021-07-05.

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