Michael Pillsbury: How US Government Agencies Secretly Aided Communist China’s Rise | TEASER

“I fear they're outsmarting us over and over again,” says China expert Michael Pillsbury, Director for Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and author of “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower.” Pillsbury played a key role in the United States initiating military and intelligence ties with China, starting in the 1980s. Many relationships between Chinese and US agencies have continued to this day, Pillsbury says. “Some things have been redacted, removed from [‘The Hundred-Year Marathon’]. … The CIA and FBI and DOD felt they’re telling too much about just how deeply involved we were in China,” Pillsbury says. How did the Chinese communist regime secretly exploit America to fuel its own rise? “They often refer to the Warring States and the tactics of the Warring States period. … Only one country got to lead the world and that country had to destroy the others or set them against each other or undermine them, steal their technology. There were a variety of techniques that were used [but] almost never war itself. Almost never war itself. It’s the most important lesson.”