For more than forty years, the United States 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 fear and everything to gain from China's rise. But what if the Chinese have had a different plan all along?
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.
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"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."--The Wall Street Journal "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."--Newsweek "Pungently written and rich in detail, this
book deserves to enter the mainstream of
debate over the future of U.S. Chinese relations."--Foreign
Affairs "The Hundred-Year Marathon looks at the critical issues
of who is in fact making policy in the Chinese capital and, as a
result, it will be read, analyzed and debated for years. Think of
Pillsbury as our time's Paul Revere."--Gordon Chang, The
National Interest "This is a highly engaging and
thought-provoking read. It does what few books do well, and that is
to mix scholarship, policy, and memoir-style writing in an
accessible but still intellectually rich fashion. . . . Pillsbury .
. . draw[s] on his extensive knowledge of Chinese historical
military writings and theory as well as his interactions with
Chinese defectors and senior military officers to develop a
compelling analytical defense of this thesis. . . . In the end,
whether you agree with Pillsbury or not, the book is well worth a
careful read."--Elizabeth Economy, Council on Foreign Relations
"Despite dealing with a weighty subject, Pillsbury says everything
that he wants to say . . . [in] this highly readable book. It
deserves to be widely read and debated."--The Christian Science
Monitor "Pillsbury's scholarship is buttressed by an
eye-popping amount of declassified material.... Pillsbury's key
claim [is] that China... is methodically undertaking a
'hundred-year marathon' strategy to displace the United States as
the global hegemon... The time is ripe to examine the trajectory of
American relations with the world's second-largest economy [and]
the marathon is hardly over."--The Weekly Standard
"Following the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war,
Americans agonized over 'Who lost China?' If we do not recognize
the Chinese party-state for the predatory animal that it is, in 20
years the question we will be asking ourselves is 'Who lost the
world?' The answer will be, 'We did.'"--The Washington Times
"A presentation of China's hidden agenda grounded in the author's
longtime work at the U.S. Defense Department.... Fodder for
concerned thought."--Kirkus Reviews "This is without
question the most important book written about Chinese strategy and
foreign policy in years. Michael Pillsbury has spent more than four
decades for the Pentagon and the CIA talking to and learning from a
core of Chinese 'hard-liners' who may be the driving force behind
Chinese foreign policy today under Xi Jinping. Based on meticulous
scholarship and written in lively, engaging prose, this book offers
a sobering corrective to what has long been the dominant, soothing
narrative of Sino-American cooperation."--Robert Kagan, author of
The World America Made and Of Paradise and Power "A
provocative exploration of the historical sources of China's grand
strategy to become #1."--Graham Allison, Director of Harvard
Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International
Affairs "Michael Pillsbury has been meeting with, talking to, and
studying the 'hawks' in China's military and intelligence apparatus
for more than four decades, since back when America and China were
cooperating against the Soviet Union. In this fascinating,
provocative new book, he lays out the hawks' views about the United
States and their long-term strategies for overcoming American power
by the middle of this century. In the process, the book challenges
the wrong-headed assumptions in Washington about a gradually
reforming China. Given the direction China has been taking in the
past few years, Pillsbury's book takes on immediate
relevance."--James Mann, author of About Face: A History of
America's Curious Relationship with China, The China
Fantasy, and Beijing Jeep "The Hundred-Year
Marathon is based on work that Michael Pillsbury did for the
CIA that landed him the Director's Exceptional Performance Award.
It is a fascinating chronicle of his odyssey from the ranks of the
'panda-huggers' to a principled, highly informed, and lonely stance
alerting us to China's long-term strategy of achieving dominance.
He shows that we face a clever, entrenched, and ambitious potential
enemy, suffused with the shrewdness of Sun Tzu conducting a
determined search for the best way to sever our Achilles' heel. We
have vital work to do, urgently."--R. James Woolsey, former
Director of Central Intelligence and chairman of the Foundation for
Defense of Democracies
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