“there is one situation worse than too much information: not enough of it. When hard news is scarce, rumors arise everywhere. Rumors… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“High technology and the Internet, however, have a dark side, as far as China’s leaders are concerned. They now know that the… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“The limits of Mao’s system have just about been reached. Party cadres say they want the benefits of the Internet, but they… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“The Internet breaks a 500-year Latin American pattern of monopoly, monopoly of information, economics, social, religious power. It fundamentally gives power to… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China’s markets are being manipulated.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Until the tide goes out you don’t know who’s swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
