Michael Pillsbury

MICHAEL PILLSBURY, former Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and author of "The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower":

PART ONE:

• How China is playing the long game for economic dominance and eventual conquest
• The ruse behind China's Free Market Frankenstein
• Kissinger's new take on U.S.-Chinese relations: Only China could go to Nixon

PART TWO:

• “The Kissinger Role”
• A history of U.S. and Chinese collaboration on science, technology, weapons, and intelligence
• The Clinton Administration's fundamental changes to Chinese-American relations

PART THREE:

• The rise of the hawks in China
• Understanding the puzzle of Beijing's political power struggles
• Spy vs. Spy and Chinese espionage successes

PART FOUR:

• The story of Larry Wu Tai Chin
• Dangerous implications of the Chinese "Assassin’s Mace" program
• Known unknowns of China’s nuclear force
• The U.S.'s loss of the battle of information dominance and strategic communications