Tuesday, March 4, 2025
6:00pm
The Lodge at Torrey Pines
11480 N Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, California

Join Pacific Research Institute as we celebrate championing freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility at our annual Southern California dinner. We are delighted to have as our keynote speaker Gordon Chang, America’s premier expert on China, and 2025 Baroness Thatcher Liberty Award Recipient Linden Blue, Co-Owner and Vice Chair of General Atomics. This year’s dinner celebrating PRI’s critical work in the fight for individual liberty and free markets will take place at the beautiful Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California on Tuesday, March 4.  

Gordon Chang is the author of Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America (2024), which details China’s penetration of American society. Copies of the book will be available for sponsors of the dinner. At the dinner, Mr. Chang will address current and emerging threats to America from China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia – and how we can address these threats. His writings on China and Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The Daily Beast, among others. He is a columnist at Newsweek and writes regularly for The Hill. 

At the dinner, we will present PRI’s 2025 Baroness Thatcher Liberty Award to Linden Blue, a pioneer in aviation technology and leadership. Mr. 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. The award is presented annually to an individual who has championed freedom and personal responsibility.

Gordon G. Chang  is an author, lawyer, 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 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, National Review, Barron's, and other national and international publications. Chang has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television.

He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities as well as The Brookings Institution, Pacific Research Institute, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the 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. Chang’s latest book is Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America (Humanix Books).