David Ignatius: China, the challenge of our time. There’s a way to get it right

07Sep

David Ignatius: China, the challenge of our time. There’s a way to get it right

“President Trump is our desk officer on China,” says Michael Pillsbury, an informal White House adviser on Asia policy. Strange as it sounds, that’s probably accurate.

27Aug

Hong Kong offers China a way out of Trump’s trade war: cool the protests crisis to ease the tariffs heat

“Think of Pillsbury as our time’s Paul Revere,” proposes Gordon G. Chang, jaunty author of The Coming Collapse of China (2001). Or think of guys like Chang and Pillsbury as no more than restless enablers of an unnerving run of China hysteria.

05Jun

Five books that explain how the Tiananmen protests shaped China

By James Kynge As a young reporter, I witnessed the massacre of protesters in central

04Jun

Michael Pillsbury: Trump’s top name on China policy

Pillsbury, as the director for Chinese Strategy at the conservative Hudson Institute, was invited by the Center for China and Globalization to talk about trade. I'd never expected to get the interview from the China hawk, so his acceptance caught me by surprise.

China Kowtows To Donald Trump Over Trade

06May

Op-Ed: Why Trump Is Raising Tariffs on China

By Michael Pillsbury – May 6, 2019 6:19 p.m. ET The president’s tough line will reduce

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.

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