The Hudson Institute’s Michael Pillsbury told Fox News on Wednesday that Zhang is a “hero” for exposing “a great deal of things China doesn’t want out.”
According to China expert Michael Pillsbury, author of The hundred-year marathon, the Chinese Communist Party intends to integrate Hong Kong and Taiwan back into China in time to achieve ‘Middle Kingdom’ status by 2049—the centennial of the CCP’s victory over the Guomindang in the Chinese civil war.
The counter to arguments that China’s economy is faltering, is explained by such heavy weights as Michael Pillsbury, who suggest that China leaks numbers about its financial weakness as camouflage for its rise.
A few of Joe Biden’s advisers know China well and want him to be tough. I wrote “The Hundred Year Marathon” with a lot of declassified materials that CIA and FBI approved of me disclosing. My goal was to wake people up.
Last week, the Defense Department announced the appointment of Michael Pillsbury, a China expert at the Hudson Institute, as the board’s new chair, and Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, formerly an administrator at the National Nuclear Security Administration, as a member.
"Pillsbury is a knowledgeable hawk with an interest in Chinese history and culture. Unlike ignorant China hawks in the US, Pillsbury has a passion for understanding China" said Lu Xiang, a senior fellow Chinese Academy of Social Sciences