What’s an interesting book/article you’re reading now or finished? And why? “I am reading Michael Pillsbury’s book on China called ‘The Hundred-Year Marathon.’ It is a very good explanation of China’s aspirations over the long term and how the U.S.-China relations fit in.”

President Donald Trump has touted a preliminary agreement with China as a “massive” deal, but

“We’re at very low levels of pressure compared to what could be done,” Michael Pillsbury, an outside adviser to Trump on China and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told POLITICO earlier this month.

“We’re at very low levels of pressure compared to what could be done,” said Michael Pillsbury, an outside adviser to Trump on China and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

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Pillsbury, the Trump adviser, said the administration fears not only losing a commercial rivalry — but enabling an Orwellian future in which an authoritarian Beijing controls global surveillance, directs online speech and embeds government control into the very plumbing of the internet.