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.”
Lost In Translation? How Verbal Mishaps And Lack Of Chinese-Language Document Threaten US-China Trade Deal
20Jul
Politico

Trump’s method to the madness on trade

Pillsbury, the Trump adviser, said the administration fears not only losing a commercial rivalry — but enabling an Orwellian future in which an authoritarian Beijing controls global surveillance, directs online speech and embeds government control into the very plumbing of the internet.
Peter Thiel: FBI, CIA Must Investigate ‘Treasonous’ Google
15Jul
Breitbart

Peter Thiel: FBI, CIA Must Investigate ‘Treasonous’ Google

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Chinese policy expert Dr. Michael Pillsbury noted that eight years ago, Google co-founder Sergey brin received praise for refusing to do business with the Chinese government, a decision which now appears to have been completely reversed. “Fast forward eight years and Google has reversed itself, but done so secretly.”