Author: mpillsbury

Steve Bannon On Hong Kong, Covid-19, And The War With China Already Underway
24May

Steve Bannon on Hong Kong, Covid-19, and the War with China Already Underway

And this is the beginning of the selection of superstars, like Michael Pillsbury [a former government official who President Trump has called an authority on China], Matt Pottinger [now deputy National Security Advisor], and Peter Navarro. And others came into the administration, like General [Robert] Spalding. That all started with those early meetings with General Flynn.
US Consensus View Sees China As The Enemy
22May

US consensus view sees China as the enemy

Such sentiments echo Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, an influential book widely read within conservative circles in the US, especially by key figures within the Trump administration.
White House's China Policy Reeks Of McCarthyism
19May

White House’s China policy reeks of McCarthyism

The US president's China "experts" Michael Pillsbury, Peter Navarro and Matt Pottinger are working in parallel with Pompeo to punish, humiliate and isolate the very country they are allegedly expert in. Their bigoted and incendiary anti-China rhetoric puts ordinary Asian Americans at risk. Pillsbury alludes to inscrutably secret Chinese plans while Navarro claims on TV that the two countries are at war because Shanghai Disneyland is now open and the one near his home in Anaheim, California, is closed. The US president abruptly ends a White House news conference, refusing to answer the question of a Chinese-American journalist with a withering put-down, telling her to "ask China".