The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Michael Pillsbury

Feb 2015 · Sold by Henry Holt and Company

About this ebook

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.

For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China's rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. But what if the "China Dream" is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot?

Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified, previously undisclosed national security documents, The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the "hawks" in China's military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions. He offers an inside look at how the Chinese really view America and its leaders – as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise.
Pillsbury also explains how the U.S. government has helped – sometimes unwittingly and sometimes deliberately – to make this "China Dream" come true, and he calls for the United States to implement a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be. The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wake-up call as we face the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century.

Ratings and reviews

You criminals on top better pray it doesn't happen or you all will regret it!Many had families that suffered during communlstlc ways and we wont let this happen!! These guys will be prosecuted they are resp for protesters looting and ruining small businesses along with religious places.They have connections to social media c e n s 0 r sh l p s. They have b 0 t s spreading lying hate esp falsifying the past and accusing whltles of r a c l s m yet they were and are the most,hypocrites. Majority there are brainwashed with delusional lies and are trying to do the same here. They keep poking the bear here and we will see where it gets thoseC 0 m m le criminals!! They need to answer for their crimes worldwide and face consequences!!!!Those of us who had families inUSSR,and communlstlc times wont put up with this and shouldn't have to!!!! We will start the revolution and end it!!!!

Pillsbury does a great job of educating readers not only on the history of China but how the Republican culture thinks and perceives the ways of the west. The book flows smoothly, kept my attention and made me eager to read the next chapter. I feel after reading this book I have a stronger understanding of the Chinese Republic and the misconceptions of American Alliance Pillsbury breaks down and assesses.

The book is great. The storyline doesn't drag

About the author

Michael Pillsbury is the director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and has served in presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, he is a former analyst at the RAND Corporation and research fellow at Harvard and has served in senior positions in the Defense Department and on the staff of four U.S. Senate committees. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He lives in Washington, D.C.