“This is quite a brilliant idea, that he can adjust, the Commerce Department can adjust which licenses they give,” Michael Pillsbury, the Hudson Institute’s director for Chinese strategy and author of an influential book warning of China’s geopolitical ambitions, said Monday. “The licenses could be granted quite quickly ... but they can also be turned off again.”
US-China Trade Talks Obstacles - Michael Pillsbury said, “In China, the hawks don’t want a free market and they want a more assertive China. On the American side, the base wants not to be ripped off or taken advantage of by China.”