Gordon Chang, a China affairs expert and widely known for his book The Coming Collapse of China, said on Sunday that the Chinese regime’s challenge is existential and the United States should cut ties to it. “Chinese leaders are both arrogant and insecure at the same time. And this, to me, is the worst possible combination of attributes. So what should we do?” Chang said in an online webinar held by the Florida Society for Middle East Studies. “In what to me looks like an emergency, we need to cut our ties to the Chinese regime.” Chang explained that cutting ties is not to decouple. To decouple, or get supply chains to be less vulnerable, is a majority view now. But he thinks the U.S. government should get U.S. factories back from China, end technological cooperation partnerships, cut off cultural exchanges, get Chinese diplomats and journalists out of America, get China’s …