Michael Pillsbury, who served as Mr. Trump’s top outside adviser on China during his first term, said that meetings among midlevel American and Chinese officials tend to be fruitless because they have little authority to make major policy decisions. He said that he expected that Mr. Trump would have little patience in such a format and that he instead would focus on direct talks with President Xi Jinping.
Michael Pillsbury, a former US Department of Defence official, said in 2014 that Washington had "funded millions of dollars of programmes" targeting Hong Kong through the NED.
Dr. Michael Pillsbury of The Heritage Foundation predicts China will overtake America as the world’s superpower. Former Trump National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster of the Hoover Institution has sounded alarms about the PRC in congressional testimony.
“I think the Ukraine war has brought them together. This is a strategic nightmare to see of them hug like this, usually, Xi Jinping is a little more restrained," Michael Pillsbury, a senior fellow on China strategy for The Heritage Foundation said in an interview with Fox News Saturday.