Gordon G. Chang
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Gordon G. Chang | |
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| Born | Gordon Guthrie Chang 1951 (age 72–73) |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer, author, television commentator, speaker |
| Spouse | 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
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 Show with 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]
References
- ^ "Author bio". gordonchang.com.
- ^ "The Coming Collapse of China: 2012 Edition" – via Foreign Policy.
- ^ "China's Collapse Is Coming, More So Now Than Ever - Gordon Chang -2016".
- ^ "Chang's predictions of China's collapse destroy his own credibility".
- ^ "Author Page Gordon Chang". thedailybeast.com. The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNwt2DGshpw
- ^ "章家敦︰中共崩溃瞬息间 - 大纪元". 4 April 2012.
- ^ Chang, Gordon G. "$3.9 Trillion Of Local Gov Debt In China . . . And Counting".
- ^ "US rejects China Dalai Lama warning". Al Jazeera English. 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
- ^ Jeff Macke (2011-06-24). "China Is The New Dot-Com Bubble: Gordon Chang". Yahoo! Finance.
- ^ "Chinese Piracy Costs US 1 Million Jobs: Gordon Chang". Yahoo! Finance. 2011-06-27.
External links
- 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
