The Madison Republican Committee welcomed noted conservative columnist and author Gordon Chang to its fall reception on Saturday, September 17 at the Madison Elks Club, 192 Main Street, Madison.
Mr. Chang, the world’s leading authority on China and its allies, Iran and North Korea, lived in Madison during his youth. His father Darwin Chang owned a restaurant on Main Street and was a longtime friend of fellow business owner Joseph Falco, Sr. Gordon Chang is a close acquaintance of Joseph Falco Jr. and accepted his invitation to speak to the Madison community.
Chang warned that the People’s Republic of China is preparing to go to war soon, and that the Chinese and Russians are much closer to one another than the rest of the world had thought. “I don’t care about whether the Chinese and Russians are still together two decades from now, I’m concerned about the here and now. And in the here and now, these two countries are working together. This was clear on February 4th when China, in effect, green-lighted the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. That was the day that they issued their 5,300 word joint statement that called on their ‘no limits’ partnership. After that, two Fridays ago, we had the third ranking Chinese leader in Moscow talking to the state expressing clear unequivocal support for Russia’s foray into Ukraine.”
According to Chang, the alliance between the two countries is more than just words in a joint statement, and China has been supplying military assistance to Russia. Chang cited open source reports that China has been feeding Russia location data from the Chinese-made drones that Ukraine has been using for military surveillance. “China knows the location of those drones. It’s been supplying that data to Russia so that Russia can kill the Ukranian drone operators.”
About Gordon Chang
Gordon G. Chang was the first to theorize the COVID-19 virus as created in the Wuhan lab in 2020. He is the author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War and Losing South Korea, booklets released by Encounter Books. His previous books are Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World and The Coming Collapse of China, both from Random House.
Mr. 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.He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, CNN and Bloomberg Television. He is a regular co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show (701 WOR-AM) and Joe Piscopo Shows (970 AM), to mention just a few. 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, Barron's, and The Daily Beast. He is a columnist at Newsweek and writes regularly for The Hill.
Mr. Chang 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 including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia. Chang has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
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 has served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.
