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 The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, which will be released next week.
“Most American officials ignored the anti-American signs altogether. Some of the anti-U.S. evidence was even suppressed,” Pillsbury writes.
“That’s easy,” she replied. “I have instructions not to translate nation- alistic stuff.”
I was puzzled by this. “Why?” I asked her.
“The China division at headquarters told me it would just inflame both the conservatives and left-wing human rights advocates here in Washington and hurt relations with China.”
Pillsbury, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, “was the Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning and responsible for implementation of the program of covert aid known as the Reagan Doctrine,” according to his biography.
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower hits shelves February 3.
