Michael Pillsbury, author of the "The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower," told Fox News Digital that the question is what this announcement means in terms of how the FBI and U.S. states' attorneys interpret it.
In 1975, Pillsbury published an article in the magazine Foreign Policy — in essence, a declassified version of his military research and memos to the government — calling for Washington to “reject the current blind public policy of blanket prohibition of defence technology transfer and intelligence sharing with Peking [Beijing]”.
"Looking back, it is painful that I was so gullible," said Michael Pillsbury, a hawkish former defense department official and veteran of bilateral interactions.
"This is a highly dangerous thing for everybody else but for Americans in particular - giving up our global primacy - a lot of Americans simply won't do it. We'd fight rather than do it," Pillsbury told the audience.