"Looking back, it is painful that I was so gullible," said Michael Pillsbury, a hawkish former defense department official and veteran of bilateral interactions.
"This is a highly dangerous thing for everybody else but for Americans in particular - giving up our global primacy - a lot of Americans simply won't do it. We'd fight rather than do it," Pillsbury told the audience.
“That period in time was amateur hour with people who did not know Trump or had never met with Trump before in their lives attempting to get into the Oval Office to get authorized to do investigations that the rest of the government had examined and had said there was no evidence for,” said Michael Pillsbury, an informal adviser to Trump at the time.
“We have been destroying our national champions while China has been nurturing its own,” laments Michael Pillsbury, who helped craft Donald Trump’s hawkish China policy.
"China is closing in on us. They’re up to about 75%, or even 80% of the size of our economy already, and the way they're doing this is better technology that they developed and also that they steal," China expert Michael Pillsbury told Fox News.