The End Of America's 30-Year Engagement With China?
09Aug
Bloomberg

Trump Still Has Plenty of Ways to Escalate His China Trade War

Michael Pillsbury, an occasional adviser to the Trump administration, insists that while Trump “has more guns” he also has a more pragmatic view of China than his aides and is still eager to cut a deal. “The key is to get the message to Xi, and not with a blunderbuss,” Pillsbury said.
U.S. And China Resume Trade Talks Amid Dim Prospects For Deal
29Jul
The New York Times

U.S. and China Resume Trade Talks Amid Dim Prospects for Deal

Michael Pillsbury, a China expert at the Hudson Institute, said that leaving more uncertainty in the agreement could foster more trade fights between the world’s two largest economies, particularly given a complex enforcement mechanism the two sides previously agreed to establish to ensure both countries lived up the agreement.
US-China Ties And Taiwan Safety
25Jul
Taipei Times

US-China ties and Taiwan safety

As Michael Pillsbury, a top China expert in the US government, wrote in his book The Hundred-Year Marathon: “I discovered proposals by Chinese hawks to the Chinese leadership to mislead and manipulate American policymakers to obtain intelligence and military, technological and economic assistance... Then China will set up a world order that will be fair to China, a world without American global supremacy, and revise the US-dominated economic and geological world order.”