‘This Is Like 1939’: Gordon Chang Talks With the Sun About the Danger From China

‘Historians are going to look back at us and say, “How could Americans not see what was coming?”‘

AP/Ng Han Guan, file
President Xi, front row center, stands with his cadres during the closing ceremony for the 19th Party Congress at Beijing on October 24, 2017. AP/Ng Han Guan, file
M.J. KOCH
M.J. KOCH

“This is like 1939.” That’s how author and lawyer Gordon Chang describes to the Sun the current world order, increasingly shaped by an ambitious Communist China while an unprepared America falters in leadership. “Historians are going to look back at us and say, ‘How could Americans not see what was coming?’”

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