Gordon G. Chang

“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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Gordon G. Chang

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

— Gordon G. Chang

“Mao Zedong himself would have realized that the Communist Party has become weak. “All reactionaries are paper tigers,” he said. And Mao…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Today tinkering is the order of the day as Chinese leaders “cross the river by feeling the stones.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored,” said Aldous Huxley.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Don’t part with your illusions,” said Mark Twain. “When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“It had all the elements needed for an industrial revolution centuries before it would occur in Europe. Yet, for one reason or…

— Gordon G. Chang

“You’re either an agent of change, or a victim of it,”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Yet the continual stream of tortuous explanations of what socialism means only serves to highlight that ideology’s terminal condition. Chinese leaders have…

— Gordon G. Chang

“then head of ING Bank in Shanghai, said it all: “The bad news is that the Big Four are insolvent; the good…

— Gordon G. Chang

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about…

— Gordon G. Chang

“we should listen to Leon Trotsky. “Revolution is impossible until it is inevitable,” he told us.”

— Gordon G. Chang