On Sunday, professional China-basher Gordon Chang participated in two panels at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in which China was pilloried as the “greatest threat” in the world.
Chang is infamous as the author of the very epitome of “this didn’t age well": his 2001 book The Coming Collapse of China, in which he writes in ominous tones about China’s coming economic failure and government collapse. China has achieved phenomenal growth over the two decades since Chang penned his prognostications.
Of course, if you’re part of British efforts to prevent the rise of rivals and of the possibility of U.S. cooperation with its great potential allies Russia and China, being breathtakingly wrong in the past isn’t disqualifying.
Among the silly things said in the panels:
• China has always been anti-U.S..
• Japan is terrified of the threat posed by a reunified Korea.
