Gordon G. Chang
Gordon G. Chang is an author and columnist. Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades as Counsel to the law firm Paul Weiss and earlier as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Barron’s and other national and international publications. He is a columnist at Newsweek and writes regularly for The Hill.
Chang has appeared on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Newsmax TV, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television.
He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities as well as at The Brookings Institution, Pacific Research Institute, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, American Enterprise Institute, and other institutions. He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Pentagon. 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 served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University.
Chang’s latest book is Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America.
Linden Blue
Linden S. Blue is Vice Chairman of General Atomics, a high-tech company and world leader in unpiloted aerial systems (Predators and Reapers), high-power lasers and electromagnetics (Carrier catapults and Railguns), nuclear fusion, and new generation fission reactors. He was also CEO and President of Beech Aircraft and general manager of Learjet. Linden Blue is a pilot with over 10,000 hours in jets, helicopters, and amphibians. He is on the executive committee of the Hudson Institute, former board member of the Center for Naval Analysis, and Chairman Emeritus of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the UCSD School of Engineering. He also served for four years as Councilman-at-Large for the City of Denver.
He and his brother founded a 4,000-acre cocoa and banana plantation in Nicaragua in 1958. During college, he was a news correspondent and wrote the cover story for Life Magazine for having flown a single engine Piper around South America. Mr. Blue was also incarcerated in Cuba in 1961. He holds a B.A. from Yale University, a graduate of Harvard Business School, and has an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
