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THE HUNDRED YEAR MARATHON

Michael Pillsbury

THE HUNDRED-YEAR MARATHON is a shocking look at China's secret plan to become the global superpower.

For more than forty years, the west has reached out to China, helping it develop a booming economy and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that there is little to fearand everything to gain from China's rise. But what if the Chinese have had a different plan all along? 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, who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on Chinese documents, speeches, and books (many of them never translated into English) to reveal the roots of this strategy in traditional Chinese statecraft and track how the Chinese are putting it into practice today. Pillsbury shows how American policymakers have been willfully blind to these developments for decades and he includes himself in that critique, as he was once a leading voice in favor of aiding China. He also calls for the United States to design 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 wakeup call for all Americans concerned about how we have misread the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century. Michael Pillsbury is a defense policy adviser who 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 and lives in Washington, D.C.

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Book Published 2015-02-01 by Henry Holt

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Nikkei Business Publications

China's ambition to become the world's dominant power has been there all along, virtually burned into the country's cultural DNA and hiding, as [Pillsbury] says, in plain sight The author is correct to assert that China constitutes, by far, the biggest national challenge to America's position in the world today.

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Pungently written and rich in detail, this book deserves to enter the mainstream of debate over the future of U.S.-Chinese relations.

"In the interview, Pillsbury, currently director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Chinese Strategy, said new details contained in the book were cleared for publication by the FBI, CIA, and Defense Department, including details of formerly classified presidential directives, testimony from previously unknown Chinese defectors, and alarming details of writings from powerful Chinese military and political hawks. In the interview, Pillsbury, currently director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Chinese Strategy, said new details contained in the book were cleared for publication by the FBI, CIA, and Defense Department, including details of formerly classified presidential directives, testimony from previously unknown Chinese defectors, and alarming details of writings from powerful Chinese military and political hawks. Read more...

Provocative . detailed and rigorous. [Pillsbury is] right that for Washington, assessing the nature of China's ambition, and responding to it effectively, may be the central foreign policy challenge of our time.