This is an accepted version of this page Gordon Guthrie Chang (Chinese: 章家敦; born July 5, 1951) is an American lawyer and political commentator known for his hawkish rhetoric on China.

He then lived in mainland China and in Hong Kong for close to two decades, where he worked as Partner and Counsel at the law firms Baker & McKenzie and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

His writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, National Review, and Barron’s among others, and he has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, Bloomberg Television, and others as well on as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

[9] Chang has made numerous predictions of the imminent collapse of the Chinese government and fall of the Communist Party since 2001 including the specific years.

When 2011 was almost over, he admitted that his prediction was wrong but said that he was off by only a year and wrote in the Foreign Policy magazine, that "Instead of 2011, the mighty Communist Party of China will fall in 2012.

[21] In what The New Yorker described as the "loopiest" speech of CPAC 2023, Chang alleged that Chinese government had "deliberately spread [COVID-19] beyond its borders to America and to the world".

[23] However a federal investigation into the lab in question, had not substantiated those claims but instead determined that it wasn't trying to make biological weapons, but instead was simply growing antibody cells to produce test kits for Covid-19.

[24][25] In a 2019 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Chang stated that Donald Trump is "the only thing that stands between us and a world dominated by China.