China’s Dragon Boat Festival in June honors Qu Yuan, an…

“in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India’s Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which…

— Gordon G. Chang

“the traditionally used ratios of deficit to GDP and total debt to GDP, as computed using the official numbers, grossly overstate how much more…

— Gordon G. Chang

“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young”

— Gordon G. Chang

“China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Consider these words from Lech Wałęsa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. “Practise not doing and everything will fall into place,” says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism’s primer.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China’s markets are being manipulated.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Restraint, however, is the essence of modern governance. A government’s self-control permits its people to create, explore, and discover, and that’s what allows a…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Until the tide goes out you don’t know who’s swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will…

— Gordon G. Chang

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Although China is short of the people it really needs—scientists, economists, doctors, teachers, practically everybody, in fact, except Indian chiefs—it employs its best and…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Crime wouldn’t pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN”

— Gordon G. Chang