US law enforcers should stop China’s influence campaign, says key strategist Michael Pillsbury
- Michael Pillsbury, hailed by Donald Trump as ‘the leading authority on China’, says it is time to act against Beijing
US law enforcement should step in to stop a Chinese government influence campaign in the United States, according to Michael Pillsbury, an influential American strategist hailed as “the leading authority on China” by US President Donald Trump.
Pillsbury claimed the Chinese influence campaign dated back more than seven decades.
“A lot of people said words along this line: it should not be law enforcement, it should not be national security,” Pillsbury said at forum on Wednesday at the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based conservative think tank that has grown influential under the Trump presidency.
“I’m very scared when people think it should be a moral principle that US national security law enforcement or congress can’t get involved in these issues.
“We can protect the Chinese diaspora’s human rights and civil liberties, although we are going to have action by the US government.”