China specialist and former Defense Department official Michael Pillsbury made yet another U-turn in his position on China. For more than 30 years, Pillsbury prided himself on being labeled an unabashed “panda hugger” who blamed U.S. policies for tensions in the U.S.-China relationship.
Michael Pillsbury, one of the leading scholars on China, said in his talk at Peking University on Oct 23, that only five out of fifty communication channels between China and the U.S. remain today.