China experts Michael Pillsbury and Kevin Rudd tell Fareed about China’s “grand strategy.” Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/be-prepared/on-gps-pillsbury-and-rudd-on-unreasonable-us-demands/vp-AABxdwz
“That’s always been their secret weapon, so called non-trade barriers,” said Michael Pillsbury, an outside adviser to Trump on China issues. “The non-trade barriers are where you can really inflict damage.”
Michael Pillsbury, an outside adviser to Trump on China, said the Chinese response was restrained and indicated a willingness to let the process play out in the coming weeks.
“Both sides need to recalculate the relative pain they will suffer,” he told Morning Trade. “The bottom line for both Xi and Trump are the economic growth rates they need to deliver to their respective bases.”
“In my study of Chinese negotiating tactics, in almost every case, they believe the end game is where they can score the most points,” Michael Pillsbury, a China scholar at the Hudson Institute and an adviser on China to the White House. “They’ll be totally prepared for this final phase.”
Michael Pillsbury, who Washington insiders say maintains influence as an outside adviser to Trump, said on Tuesday that the sell-off presented an opportunity.
China has big ambitions. It wants to overtake the United States as the world’s superpower by 2049, a hundred years after the Communist Party took power in Beijing. And this will be at the expense of the U.S., which unwittingly helped its strongest rival now closer to attaining its dream.
This is the gist of a 2015 book, “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as Global Superpower,” by Michael Pillsbury, an American China watcher who had served several U.S. administrations since the time of Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
Michael Pillsbury, who has advised President Trump on China, said he was not given a visa to attend a conference in Beijing, a first in decades of visiting the country.
China recently declined to issue a visa to Michael Pillsbury, an informal adviser to President Trump on China policy, in an unusual move that comes as the Trump administration steps up its scrutiny of Chinese experts attempting to travel to the U.S.