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

This is a must read book. Every American should read this book to better understand Chinese motivations and actions taken so far. Even though it is a few years old, the insights gained from a better understanding of US/China relations will help strengthen American resolve.

Dr. Michael Pillsbury's book, "The Hundred Year Marathon" may be the most useful and insightful book on China I have read. The subtitle of this book explains why. “China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower”.This book and the force of his strategic intellect transformed thinking in Washington on China, rescuing it from decades of defeatist inertia.This month, Pillsbury produced a savvy American trade deal for Trump with China, despite hysterical doomsday predictions from the media and the establishment. Pillsbury helped Trump overpower China’s wealthy lobby on K Street, led by President Clinton’s Secretary of State Madeline Albright. A dangerous trade war was prevented and America’s farmers were big winners along with the rest of us.The first difficult strategic victory Pillsbury achieved was inside the Reagan administration but the media barely covered it, Pillsbury defeated deep state resistance against providing Stinger missiles to the freedom fighters in Afghanistan who defeated the Red Army. This shocked the evil empire and freed 21 nations from communist tyranny in three years. We defeated a trillion dollar enemy by spending ten times less than the price of an aircraft carrier, and losing NO (!!!) American lives.This victory proved the desire of people overseas to be free is America’s most cost-efficient weapon, but the military industrial complex and the Washington establishment still hates it because the spread of freedom endangers their own power and profitsPillsbury increases the odds for Trump to “make us tired of winning” This book marshals the author's unique insights and experiences to demolish conventional wisdom. Dr. Pillsbury has efficiently equipped me with the background knowledge and history to evaluate the credibility of articles about this rapidly expanding power and the impact it will have on us sooner rather than later. The one shortcoming is that Mr. Pillsbury has missed the decision of the Chinese elite to incorporate Alvin Toffler's third wave theory as part of its national strategy in 1982. This decision has kicked off a series of annual Chinese GDP growth rates of 7 to 10%, positioning them to pass us much sooner than anyone expected..

This is scary like Freddy Krueger!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning and thinking about how the United Sates should be dealing with China. It reviews an incredible amount of fascinating information about modern Chinese history, particularly as it relates to the Chineseeconomy, military, foreign policy and culture. And it does so in a way that continues to captivate the reader's interest.The author is currently a "hawk" when it comes to his feelings about how much China can be trusted. But he comes by his stance honestly having once been an ardent supporter of a cooperative collaboration with China.He doesn't really suggest any detailed plan or policy recommendations for how to deal with China going forward other than to strongly suggest we look clearly at the reality of what China is doing right now which is very different from what traditional foreign policy has tended to focus on in the past. Maybe it will spur us on to thinking seriously about how we can avoid Thucydides' Trap, wherein war, more often than not, breaks out when an established power finds itself confronted and challenged by a strong, rising power. (see Graham Allison's "Destined for War")

Tremendous detail and citations of a life's work in government going toe to toe with the Chinese leadership. Every American company considering doing business in China should read this book cover to cover. Educate yourself.