China Shakes the World: A Revolutionary Remaking of the International Order

China Shakes the World: A Revolutionary Remaking of the International Order with Gordon G. Chang '73, J.D. '76

Many say we are competing with China inside the existing international order. Unfortunately, that's not the way Xi Jinping sees it. The aggressive leader is trying to impose worldwide Chinese rule. 
 
Xi has domestic incentives, like a faltering economy, that are pushing him to act belligerently against neighboring countries and the United States. His regime is now fighting faraway proxy wars on three continents, and with his belligerent tactics he has obviously made the decision to risk war close to home.
 
China's leader has a low threshold of risk, and he can now take us by surprise.

Gordon G. Chang '73, J.D. '76 is the author of The Coming Collapse of China, China Is Going to War, and the upcoming Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America.

Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.  

His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Conservative, Commentary, National Review, and Barron's. He is a columnist at Newsweek and writes regularly for The Hill.   

He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions. He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He has also spoken before industry and investor groups. Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. 

Chang has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, Newsnax, and Bloomberg Television. He is a regular co-host and guest on CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor. 

Outside the United States he has spoken in Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, The Hague, London, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver. He served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.

Follow him on X @GordonCChang.

6:00pm Reception, 6:30pm lecture gratis.  Advanced registration required by Monday, October 7th at which point it is considered final.