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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1627790101
ISBN-13
9781627790109
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201675038
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hundred-Year Marathon : China's Secret Strategy to Replace America As the Global Superpower
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
International Relations / General, United States / 21st Century, Asia / China, Security (National & International), Strategic Planning, World / Asian, International Relations / Diplomacy
Genre
Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-012015
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
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A presentation of China's hidden agenda grounded in the author's longtime work at the U.S. Defense Department.... Fodder for concerned thought., Pungently written and rich in detail, this book deserves to enter the mainstream of debate over the future of U.S.-Chinese relations., 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., 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., 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., "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 "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, "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 "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 "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, 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., 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.
Dewey Decimal
327.1120951
Table Of Content
Author's Note XI Introduction: Wishful Thinking 1 1. The China Dream 17 2. Warring States 31 3. Only China Could Go to Nixon 52 4. Mr. White and Ms. Green 80 5. America, the Great Satan 99 6. China's Message Police 115 7. The Assassin's Mace 134 8. The Capitalist Charade 156 9. A China World Order in 2049 177 10. Warning Shots 197 11. America as a Warring State 214 Notes 235 Acknowledgments 303 Index 307
Synopsis
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower. For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China's rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. But what if the "China Dream" is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot? Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified, previously undisclosed national security documents, 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, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the "hawks" in China's military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions. He offers an inside look at how the Chinese really view America and its leaders - as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise. Pillsbury also explains how the U.S. government has helped - sometimes unwittingly and sometimes deliberately - to make this "China Dream" come true, and he calls for the United States to implement 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 wake-up call as we face the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century.
LC Classification Number
JZ1734.P55 2014
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