China's secret strategy to replace America as the global superpower
"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?The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy tosupplant 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, ... draws on Chinese documents, speeches, and books ... to reveal the roots of this strategy in traditional Chinese statecraft and track how the Chinese are putting it into practice ... Pillsbury shows how American policymakers have been willfully blind to these developments for decades ... [and] calls for the United States to design a ... competitive strategy toward China as it really is ... "--Provided by publisher.
