The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant America 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, 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 strategy. He also explains how the U.S. government has unwittingly helped make this "China Dream" come true.

Now featuring a new afterword, The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wake-up call for all Americans concerned about how we have misread the greatest national security chal- lenge of the twenty-first century.