A China Hawk Gains Prominence as Trump Confronts Xi on Trade
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON — Michael Pillsbury had just finished a rib-eye salad at the Cosmos Club on Tuesday when he received a text message from the White House: “The president is trying to reach you. Call back.”
A day later, Mr. Pillsbury huddled in the Oval Office with President Trump and senior members of the White House economic team ahead of a pivotal weekend meeting in Argentina between Mr. Trump and President Xi Jinping of China.
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The China hawk who captured Trump’s ‘very, very large brain’
POLITICO
Washington veteran Michael Pillsbury has quietly become a key figure behind Trump’s confrontational China policy, to the dismay of Beijing — and some fellow China experts.
A day before President Donald Trump departed for the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, several top officials gathered in the Oval Office to strategize about Trump’s highly anticipated meeting there with China’s president.
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There’s No Cold War With China, Says Trump’s Hawkish Adviser
BLOOMBERG
Michael Pillsbury has rock solid credentials as a China hawk. He’s been called the “leading authority” on America’s trade war opponent by none other than President Donald Trump.
So when Pillsbury says that U.S.-China relations are in fact improving, and will likely get even better after Trump meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Saturday, it’s worth paying attention –- especially for investors alarmed by the trade standoff between the world’s biggest economies.
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This Is the Man Trump Described as ‘The Leading Authority on China’
U.S. President Donald Trump gave a shout-out Wednesday to “the leading authority on China,” sparking a flurry of Google searches as viewers raced to identify him.
“If you look at Mr. Pillsbury, the leading authority on China,” Trump told a press conference in New York Wednesday, “he was saying China has total respect for Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s very, very large brain.”
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WSJ: Ukraine’s U.S. Backers Use Cold-War Playbook
Pair who helped arm Afghans against Soviets find new cause.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appeared before the U.S. Congress last September and pleaded for weapons to counter Russian advances. Afterward, members of his delegation sat down with two American supporters at a home in Georgetown. Why, the Ukrainians asked, was the Obama administration promising so much but doing so little?
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Spy shocker: CIA cooperated with Chinese intelligence to target Russia
A recently published book by former Pentagon official Michael Pillsbury has shed light on one of the U.S. government’s darkest secrets: cooperation between the CIA and communist Chinese intelligence services.
The book “The Hundred Year Marathon” was cleared for publication by the FBI, CIA and Pentagon, thus giving many of its eye-opening disclosures an official cast.
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China’s ‘Hundred Year Marathon,’ with Michael Pillsbury (Complete)
In The Hundred-Year Marathon, distinguished defense and national security policy advisor Michael Pillsbury asserts that since its founding, the People’s Republic of China has outwitted the U.S. with the goal of restoring China to its rightful place atop the global hierarchy. Based on work that earned Pillsbury the CIA Director’s Exceptional Performance Award, the book incorporates interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified national security documents to challenge the misguided assumptions in Washington about a gradually reforming China.
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Former Defense Official Says Beware of Hawks Entering US-China Policy Debate
Former U.S. Defense Department official Michael Pillsbury warned on Tuesday that a serious conflict between the U.S. and China could potentially break out.
Speaking last night at Asia Society New York about his new book The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, Pillsbury said that over the past few decades, most U.S. government analysts — including himself — thought that China’s policy of “bide your time and keep your head down” would persist until around mid-century before the country tried to challenge the American “hegemon” and its interests in Asia.
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The Foxhole: Michael Pillsbury, real-life ‘Smoking Man’ from Nixon to Obama, unravels China’s secrets
In autumn 1969, President Nixon and his White House national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, worried that one of the president’s main foreign policy objectives – the opening to China – conflicted with another: détente, the diplomatic overture to the Soviet Union, including arms control accords, that Nixon hoped would extricate the U.S. from Vietnam and reduce tensions in the global struggle between nuclear superpowers.
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Washington Times: How China pursues global domination
Reading “The Hundred-Year Marathon” was a bittersweet experience. Sweet because this one-time “panda hugger” (as Michael Pillsbury describes himself) has now joined ranks (more…)
Rasumussen Reports: Watch Out for China Winning its 100-Year Marathon
In reflecting on relations between the United States and China, Henry Kissinger in his 2011 book, “On China,” notes that since he and Richard Nixon ventured to Beijing more than 40 years ago, (more…)
Wall Street Journal: Panda Hugger Turned Slugger
During the first half of his long career in defense and intelligence, Michael Pillsbury was what he now calls a “panda hugger.” (more…)
Washington Examiner: Watch out for China winning its 100-year marathon
In reflecting on relations between the United States and China, Henry Kissinger in his 2011 book On China notes that since he and Richard Nixon ventured to Beijing more than 40 years ago, (more…)
PBS Newshour: Does China have a secret plan to take America’s place?
In the bestselling but controversial new book “The Hundred-Year Marathon,” author and former Pentagon official Michael Pillsbury argues that China is angling to replace the United States as a global superpower. (more…)
Fox News: China’s expansion push in Southeast Asia renews concerns
Dr. Michael Pillsbury joins KT McFarland on DEFCON3 Fox News Live to discuss The Hundred Year Marathon and China’s expansion push in Southeast Asia. (more…)
The Blaze Radio: How China Fools America
China expert Dr. Michael Pillsbury explains how Beijing fools America.
The Blaze: 5 false assumptions enabling China’s hundred-year plan to overtake America
What if the Chinese government developed a hundred-year plan based on ancient warring strategies to counter American hegemony and ultimately overtake her and the entire world? (more…)
Defense News: China’s Superpower Strategy
Author Michael Pillsbury discusses his book “The Hundred-Year Marathon” on China’s strategy to replace the US as the world’s superpower.
LA Times Bestseller List
The Hundred-Year Marathon is #1 on the LA Times Bestseller List for Hardcover Nonfiction.
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Washington Post Bestsellers
The Hundred Year Marathon debuted at #1 on the Washington Post’s Non Fiction Bestsellers List.
Free Beacon: Chinese Military Weaknesses Revealed
China’s military made substantial strides in building modern armed forces but remains fundamentally weak due to problems with combat capabilities, Party controls, and (more…)
Asia Times: Michael Pillsbury and Fu-Manchu
I haven’t ordered Michael Pillsbury’s new book about China’s plot to take over the world (more…)
Real Clear Defense: China’s 7 Fears When it Comes to America
Beyond seeking to avoid arousing the American ba by inducing complacency, China’s strategy is largely intended to respond to the types of threats Chinese leaders (more…)
Financial Times: How likely is a war with China?
“The Hundred-Year Marathon”, meanwhile, suggests that China is “on … He ventures, (more…)
Free Beacon: Hawaiian Independence Movement Attracts Chinese Interest
China has suggested arming Hawaii’s independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan (more…)
Newsmax: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower: Excerpt from ‘The Hundred-Year Marathon’ Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com
We Americans still don’t see China the way it sees us — a condition that has persisted for decades. (more…)
Business Insider: Top US analyst: We made 5 dangerously wrong assumptions about China
I was among the first people to provide intelligence to the White House favoring an overture to China, in 1969. (more…)
New York Post: China‘s secret plan to topple the US as the world’s superpower
In 1995, Michael Pillsbury, an expert on China who has worked with every US president since Nixon and has, he writes, “arguably had more access to China’s military (more…)
TribLIVE: BEIJING’S LONG GAME
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower” by Michael Pillsbury (Henry Holt and Co.) (more…)
Turkish Weekly: Will China pass the US after the hundred-year marathon?
Recently a new book entitled “The Hundred-Year Marathon” (336 pages) was published outlining a long-term Chinese strategy to replace the US as world leader. (more…)
Epoch Times: China’s Secret Strategy for Surpassing the US
Cai Guoqiang, a nationalist Chinese artist, is famous in China for blowing up symbols of the West in front of paying Westerners. But what must have been one of his best (more…)
WSJ Live Opinion Journal: China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ Is A Mirage
Hudson Institute Director of Chinese Studies Michael Pillsbury on his new book, “The Hundred-Year Marathon,” and Beijing’s quest to supplant the United States (more…)
WNYC: Will China Become The Next Global Superpower?
Michael Pillsbury, a consultant at the Department of Defense who served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, discusses his book (more…)
Newsmax TV’s MidPoint
Author of ‘The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower” joins MidPoint. (more…)
Bloomberg Surveillance: U.S. History as Role Model in China’s Rise to Power
Michael Pillsbury, U.S. Department of Defense consultant and author of “The Hundred-Year Marathon,” discusses China’s strategy to gaining world power using lessons learned from the United States and (more…)
Bloomberg Surveillance: Alibaba Is a Play on Chinese Government: Pillsbury
Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets, and U.S. Department of Defense Consultant Michael Pillsbury talk about investing in emerging markets and how Alibaba (more…)
The International Spy Museum SpyCast Podcast
Each month, the International Spy Museum offers a new SpyCast featuring interviews and programs with ex-spies, intelligence experts, and espionage scholars. (more…)
Hudson Institute: Michael Pillsbury on China’s competition with the U.S.
On Tuesday, February 3, Hudson Institute hosted a discussion with Pillsbury, director of Hudson’s Center on Chinese Strategy, Representative J. Randy Forbes, Chairman of the Congressional China Caucus, and Senior Fellow Husain (more…)
NY Post: Pentagon’s budget includes $14B for experimental bomber
Buried within the Pentagon’s new budget request is $14 billion for an experimental new strategic bomber that has intrigued aviation buffs and has the Chinese on edge… (more…)
Washington Times: China conducting 100-year ruse to deceive west into providing support
China launched a secret 100-year modernization program that deceived successive U.S. administrations into unknowingly promoting (more…)
Business Insider: Top China analyst: Beijing has been duping the US since Mao
China launched a secret 100-year modernization program that deceived successive U.S. administrations into unknowingly promoting Beijing’s strategy of replacing the U.S.-led world order (more…)
Weekly Standard: Book: CIA Concealed ‘Anti-U.S.’ Tirades By Chinese Leaders From American Public
A new book set to be released next week alleges that the CIA took steps to prevent anti-American tirades from Chinese Communist officials from being heard in America. The details are revealed in Michael Pillsbury’s (more…)
FP: China and the United States Are Preparing for War
At a Nov. 12 news conference in Beijing, General Secretary of the Communist Party Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to notify the other side before major military activities (more…)
USA Today: Obama must be strong in China
Twenty-five years ago, mere weeks after the Chinese military violently ended a pro-democracy demonstration at Tiananmen Square, national security adviser Brent Scowcroft traveled to Beijing to toast the very leaders who ordered the massacre. (more…)
FOXNEWS: China tries to blame US for Hong Kong protests
A Chinese state-run newspaper’s claim that the United States is helping pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong is only partially inaccurate, a top foreign policy expert said Monday. (more…)
WSJ: Misunderstanding China
On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China while standing atop Beijing’s Gate of Heavenly Peace. In the decades that followed, many China watchers in the West confidently predicted the fall of his regime. (more…)
PBS: How Troubled Are U.S.-China Relations?
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited the White House Tuesday, where President Obama cautioned him and his nation that with “expanding power” comes more responsibility. (more…)
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. (more…)