“Yet the continual stream of tortuous explanations of what socialism means only serves to highlight that ideology’s terminal condition. Chinese leaders have not been able to recognize what the rest of the world already knows: socialism, with or without “Chinese… — 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
“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
“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
“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share
“China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China’s markets are being manipulated.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share
“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
“Until the tide goes out you don’t know who’s swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share
“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
“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
