WSJ: Inside Pentagon, A Scholar Shapes Views of China

WASHINGTON — Michael Pillsbury, influential Pentagon adviser and former China lover, believes most Americans have China all wrong. They think of the place as an inherently gentle country intent on economic prosperity.

In that camp he lumps the lower ranks of the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, most U.S. investors and the majority of American China scholars, whom he chides as “panda huggers.” Mr. Pillsbury…

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