Gordon Chang, China, Tibet, The Olympics And Coca-Cola
By Andrew Anderson 4:37 AM CST
I ended up having a very interesting conversation with Mr. Gordon Chang this week on the topics of China, Tibet, The Olympics, North Korea, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, The Dollar, and add to these items the price of pork, gas lines, and Richard Nixon.
Not to leave out you of course, we have last but not least what we Investors might look for when investing in China and China’s impact on America.
This ran a bit longer than I had intended but then again I could have talked for an hour. There is so much going on now. I really enjoyed this interview. As you will see, we start getting into some pretty specific issues towards the end.
I have to apologize about the volume in the beginning, but you should be fine.
If you have any interest in the world around, you will definitely want to listen and hear information you will not find in the normal Media. He has some very interesting things to say about the Dollar, where America Stands with China, and the Trade Deficit. You might just be surprised!
Enjoy!
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I just received confirmation that I will be having a conversation with Gordon Chang later this week. You may have seen him on CNN, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC, or the BBC.I believe I saw him on the Glenn Beck show a week or two ago, if memory serves me right. I thought, Wow, I would really like to pick this guy’s brain on investment strategies. Low and behold the Pygmalion effect strikes again.He also has two books out now which are Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World and The Coming Collapse Of China.He brings an astute and rather interesting perspective to world politics and economic situations that I believe can help you with your investments.My goal is to give you the benefits of his insight to help your portfolio and give you a snapshot of investment of opportunities you will not find anywhere else.Should be an interesting conversation and I am looking forward to it. I will try to post it by the weekend.Here is a bit about Mr.Chang.
Gordon G. Chang is the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, released by Random House in January 2006. Showdown focuses on nuclear proliferation in general and the North Korean crisis in particular. His first book is The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, August 2001). He now blogs at Commentary magazine’s site, www.contentions.org.
He 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 Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and the South China Morning Post.
He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, 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, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia. Chang has appeared before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and has delivered to the Commission a report on the future of China’s economy.
He has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Outside the United States he has spoken in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, The Hague, Toronto, Vancouver, and Taipei.
He has served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.
