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Gordon G. Chang
Born Gordon Guthrie Chang
1951 (age 66–67)
Occupation lawyer, author, television commentator, speaker
Spouse(s) Lydia Tam
Website Official website
Gordon Guthrie Chang (Chinese: 章家敦; pinyin: Zhāng Jiādūn; born 1951) is an American columnist, blogger, television pundit, author and lawyer.[1] He is widely known for his book The Coming Collapse of China (2001), in which he argued that the hidden nonperforming loans of the "Big Four" Chinese State banks would likely bring down China's financial system and its communist government.
Chang has claimed that the Chinese government would collapse in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2017. Critics say that Chang destroyed his own credibility by making wrong predictions repeatedly.[2][3][4]
In Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World (2006), Chang suggests that North Korea is most likely to target Japan, not South Korea. Chang suggests 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 is also a contributor at The Daily Beast.[5]
Biography[edit]
Chang was born to a Chinese father and an American mother of Scottish ancestry.[6][7] His father is from Rugao, Jiangsu, China.[8] Chang graduated from Columbia High School, 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, and graduated from the Cornell Law School in 1976.
He is a regular contributor to The John Batchelor Show, The Glenn Beck Program on Fox News, and CNN. He appeared as a special guest on Comedy Central's The Daily Showwith Jon Stewart on July 17, 2006. On February 3, 2010, he appeared on Al Jazeera English and argued that China does not have a lot of economic leverage over the United States. On November 24, 2010, he appeared on Imus in the Morning to discuss the Yeonpyeong artillery duel.
Chang continues to maintain that China is on the brink of collapse and that the people are one step away from revolution.[9] Chang also argues that China is a "new dot-com bubble", adding that the rapid growth by China is not supported by various internal factors such as decrease in population growth as well as slowing retail sales.[10] In a separate interview, he remarked that China achieved its 149.2 percent of its current trade surplus with the United States through "lying, cheating, and stealing" and that if China decided to realize its threat that had been expressed since August 2007 to sell its US 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.[11]
Chang often criticized South Korea's pro-North Korean measures during President Moon Jae-in's term. Chang harshly criticized Moon Jae-in, calling him "dangerous" and arguing that Moon should be considered as a "North Korea's agent."[12] Chang also asserted that Moon Jae-in is "subverting freedom, democracy, and South Korea."[12]
References[edit]
Jump up^ "Author bio". gordonchang.com.
Jump up^ "The Coming Collapse of China: 2012 Edition" – via Foreign Policy.
Jump up^ "China's Collapse Is Coming, More So Now Than Ever - Gordon Chang -2016".
Jump up^ "Chang's predictions of China's collapse destroy his own credibility".
Jump up^ "Author Page Gordon Chang". thedailybeast.com. The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
Jump up^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNwt2DGshpw
Jump up^ "章家敦︰中共崩溃瞬息间 - 大纪元". 4 April 2012.
Jump up^ Chang, Gordon G. "$3.9 Trillion Of Local Gov Debt In China . . . And Counting".
Jump up^ "US rejects China Dalai Lama warning". Al Jazeera English. 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
Jump up^ Jeff Macke (2011-06-24). "China Is The New Dot-Com Bubble: Gordon Chang". Yahoo! Finance.
Jump up^ "Chinese Piracy Costs US 1 Million Jobs: Gordon Chang". Yahoo! Finance. 2011-06-27.
^ Jump up to:a b "Gordon G. Chang on Twitter (Archived)". Gordon G. Chang. 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gordon G. Chang.Gordon Chang's web site
"Kim Jong-il will create crisis, China will step in and solve it", Gordon Chang interview to Venkatesan Vembu, Daily News & Analysis, 20 June 2006
Appearances on C-SPAN
