A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

In 2015, I spoke with Gordon Chang, author and political commentator about his views on China and his books, The Coming Collapse of China, and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. I recently invited him back on Talking Taiwan, to listen to that episode, check out episode 85.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

How Gordon went from practicing law to writing The Coming Collapse of Chinaand becoming a political commentator who focuses on news about China
How Gordon's views of China changed after he worked and lived there from 1996-2001
How the Chinese Communist Party is going in the wrong direction
What kind of reactions Gordon's book, The Coming Collapse of Chinareceived
What's going to happen if China does collapse?
China's predatory trade policies
How China's ban of certain websites and social media platforms delegitimizes the Chinese Communist Party
Gordon's impressions of Taiwan
How Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement was inspired by Taiwan's Sunflower Movement
Dissent in Hong Kong, Tibet and the Uighurs in Xinjiang
Gordon's book Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World
How Gordon believes that the U.S. should be calling out China on North Korea
Gordon's thoughts on the premise of the film The Interviewand the cyber hacks on Sony
If Gordon has another book in the works

Related Links:

Gordon Chang on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gordongchang

Gordon Chang's website: www.gordonchang.com

Gordon's book Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400062942/qid=1134270260/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-9747648-7111228?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

Gordon's book, The Coming Collapse of China: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037550477X/qid=1134270217/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/002-9747648-7111228?n=507846&s=books&v=glance

Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement: https://qz.com/1714897/what-was-hong-kongs-umbrella-movement-about/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_Movement

Taiwan's Sunflower Movement: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/article/inside-taiwans-sunflower-movement-twentyfour-days-in-a-studentoccupied-parliament-and-the-future-of-the-region/DB4A7B57538A6F06DC6C8CF0058C8040

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement

The Interview: https://www.netflix.com/title/70305895

https://www.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/north-korea-the-interview-reaction/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/-sp-north-koreans-review-the-interview

Ep 86 | The Coming Collapse of China: Gordon Chang Discusses his Books

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Ep 86 | The Coming Collapse of China: Gordon Chang Discusses his Books