Gordon G. Chang

Gordon G. Chang is a journalist, lawyer, political commentator, and writer. He is the author of “The Coming Collapse of China," "Losing South Korea," “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World," "The Great U.S.-China Tech War," and in 2023, "China is Going to War."

Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.

Chang is a former contributor at The Daily Beast. 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

Chang is a contributing editor for 19FortyFive, an international affairs website, and serves on the advisory board of the Global Taiwan Institute. He is also a member of the Conservative Political Action Conference's Board of Directors.

He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities. Additionally, he has spoken at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions. He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He has also spoken before industry and investor groups, including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia. Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.