Gordon G. Chang
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| Born | Gordon Guthrie Chang July 5, 1951 Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S. | ||||||||
| Education | Cornell University (BA, JD) | ||||||||
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| Spouse | Lydia Tam | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 章家敦 | ||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||
Gordon Guthrie Chang (Chinese: 章家敦; born July 5, 1951) is an American lawyer, political analyst and conservative columnist known for his hawkish rhetoric on China. He is the author of the 2001 book The Coming Collapse of China in which he predicted the collapse of China by 2011. In December 2011, he changed the timing of the year of the predicted collapse to 2012.
In 1976, Chang graduated from the Cornell Law School. He then lived in mainland China and in Hong Kong for close to two decades, where he worked as Partner and Counsel at the law firms Baker & McKenzie and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.