Hundred-Yr Marathon

One of many U.S. authorities’s main China specialists reveals the hidden technique fueling that nation’s rise – and the way Individuals have been seduced into serving to China overtake us because the world’s main superpower.

For greater than forty years, the USA has performed an indispensable position serving to the Chinese language authorities construct a booming economic system, develop its scientific and navy capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, within the perception that China’s rise will deliver us cooperation, diplomacy, and free commerce. However what if the “China Dream” is to interchange us, simply as America changed the British Empire, with out firing a shot?

Based mostly on interviews with Chinese language defectors and newly declassified, beforehand undisclosed nationwide safety paperwork, The Hundred-Yr Marathon reveals China’s secret technique to supplant the USA because the world’s dominant energy, and to take action by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Folks’s Republic. Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior nationwide safety positions within the U.S. authorities for the reason that days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, attracts on his a long time of contact with the “hawks” in China’s navy and intelligence businesses and interprets their paperwork, speeches, and books to point out how the teachings of conventional Chinese language statecraft underpin their actions. He provides an inside have a look at how the Chinese language actually view America and its leaders – as barbarians who would be the architects of their very own demise.

Pillsbury additionally explains how the U.S. authorities has helped – typically unwittingly and typically intentionally – to make this “China Dream” come true, and he requires the USA to implement a brand new, extra aggressive technique towards China because it actually is, and never as we would want it to be. The Hundred-Yr Marathon is a wake-up name as we face the best nationwide safety problem of the twenty-first century.