Author: mpillsbury

China’s 100-Year Marathon – And What Filipinos Should Do About It
26Apr

[ANALYSIS] China’s 100-year marathon – and what Filipinos should do about it

China has big ambitions. It wants to overtake the United States as the world’s superpower by 2049, a hundred years after the Communist Party took power in Beijing. And this will be at the expense of the U.S., which unwittingly helped its strongest rival now closer to attaining its dream. This is the gist of a 2015 book, “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as Global Superpower,” by Michael Pillsbury, an American China watcher who had served several U.S. administrations since the time of Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
Scoop: Chinese Block Visit Of Trump Confidant
17Apr

Scoop: Chinese block visit of Trump confidant

China recently declined to issue a visa to Michael Pillsbury, an informal adviser to President Trump on China policy, in an unusual move that comes as the Trump administration steps up its scrutiny of Chinese experts attempting to travel to the U.S.
13Apr

Mnuchin Says China Trade Talks Are Nearing Final Round

“The problem with the so-called enforcement issue has to do with finding a mechanism that allows punishment for violations of the agreement,” said Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute who advises the Trump administration. “That hasn’t been done yet.”