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

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Review: Hurtling Towards America’s Century-Long Faceplant - Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred-Year Marathon is that rare book which manages to be both revelatory and depressingly obvious: revelatory in how clearly it lays out China’s long-term strategy for global dominance, and depressingly obvious in how American diplomats, politicians, bureaucrats, and policy analysts managed to miss it all while patting themselves on the back for their “engagement.” Pillsbury politely calls it hubris. I call it willful blindness wrapped in smug self-assurance. The book lays bare how, for decades, successive U.S. administrations convinced themselves that China’s rise would be “peaceful” and that a little free trade would turn Beijing into a Jeffersonian democracy with dumplings. Instead, Pillsbury shows how China, patient and calculating, marched steadily toward its long game of displacing American power while the West lectured itself into paralysis. Meanwhile, the U.S. military has at least tried to keep pace, throwing money, technology, and doctrine at the problem. But Pillsbury makes the uncomfortable point that military effort alone may not matter much if the other levers of national power, namely diplomatic, informational, and economic, continue their tradition of self-inflicted sabotage. The failures in the Middle East over the past decades should have been evidence enough that the U.S. diplomatic and bureaucratic policy community needs a significant paradigm-shifting re-calibration. A Pentagon full of hypersonic weapons will not mean much if Foggy Bottom, Wall Street, and think-tank row keep rolling out the red carpet for their own undoing. The sobering takeaway? Should China launch violent expansion in the near future, it may not be the U.S. military that fails first. It may be the diplomats still penning their “win-win partnership” white papers, the economists still high on quarterly earnings, and the analysts still stuck in Cold War nostalgia. Pillsbury does not just suggest the clock is ticking; he shows that it has been ticking for decades while the United States was too busy congratulating itself on being “indispensable.” In short, The Hundred-Year Marathon is equal parts diagnosis, warning, and slap in the face. America’s real marathon, it turns out, is not about competing with China, it is about seeing past its own arrogance long enough to realize the race has already started.
Review: must read / usa china future development. - deep points, china agenda and reality is well noted by author. cannot get enough, reading slowly to absorb.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #17,454 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Chinese History (Books) #9 in National & International Security (Books) #11 in Asian Politics |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,636) |
| Dimensions  | 5.4 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 1250081343 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1250081346 |
| Item Weight  | 8.8 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | March 15, 2016 |
| Publisher  | St. Martin's Griffin |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hurtling Towards America’s Century-Long Faceplant
*by H***V on October 5, 2025*

Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred-Year Marathon is that rare book which manages to be both revelatory and depressingly obvious: revelatory in how clearly it lays out China’s long-term strategy for global dominance, and depressingly obvious in how American diplomats, politicians, bureaucrats, and policy analysts managed to miss it all while patting themselves on the back for their “engagement.” Pillsbury politely calls it hubris. I call it willful blindness wrapped in smug self-assurance. The book lays bare how, for decades, successive U.S. administrations convinced themselves that China’s rise would be “peaceful” and that a little free trade would turn Beijing into a Jeffersonian democracy with dumplings. Instead, Pillsbury shows how China, patient and calculating, marched steadily toward its long game of displacing American power while the West lectured itself into paralysis. Meanwhile, the U.S. military has at least tried to keep pace, throwing money, technology, and doctrine at the problem. But Pillsbury makes the uncomfortable point that military effort alone may not matter much if the other levers of national power, namely diplomatic, informational, and economic, continue their tradition of self-inflicted sabotage. The failures in the Middle East over the past decades should have been evidence enough that the U.S. diplomatic and bureaucratic policy community needs a significant paradigm-shifting re-calibration. A Pentagon full of hypersonic weapons will not mean much if Foggy Bottom, Wall Street, and think-tank row keep rolling out the red carpet for their own undoing. The sobering takeaway? Should China launch violent expansion in the near future, it may not be the U.S. military that fails first. It may be the diplomats still penning their “win-win partnership” white papers, the economists still high on quarterly earnings, and the analysts still stuck in Cold War nostalgia. Pillsbury does not just suggest the clock is ticking; he shows that it has been ticking for decades while the United States was too busy congratulating itself on being “indispensable.” In short, The Hundred-Year Marathon is equal parts diagnosis, warning, and slap in the face. America’s real marathon, it turns out, is not about competing with China, it is about seeing past its own arrogance long enough to realize the race has already started.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ must read / usa china future development.
*by T***Y on October 4, 2025*

deep points, china agenda and reality is well noted by author. cannot get enough, reading slowly to absorb.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Authors delusions about the US serve as an important warning
*by S***L on August 20, 2025*

Worth reading to understand what elite American policymakers think of China and how views have changed. That’s the extent to which this book is useful. The author has the seal of a convert, deriding China for seeking to become a global hegemon, cultivating friends in other countries, undercutting those deemed unsympathetic, suppressing dissent, seeking to develop military supremacy and trying to burnish its own global image. Remarkably, the author seems completely unaware of how the US itself rose to power, and how its role during WW2 and the end of the colonial era could be read in similar ways. The author also repeatedly claims the US is free of propaganda, suppression of dissent and a beacon of goodwill to the world. This is, of course, laughable, but then one realizes he is being completely serious. This realization alone is worth buying the book. Pillsbury has drunk so much of his own koolaid that he believes the war on terror was a just and good thing, American military supremacy should be applauded by the rest of the world, and ascribes many virtues to capitalism that it does not possess in practice. If other elite policymakers are anything like Mr. Pillsbury, they too believe these fairytales, and that explains why they are so sure of themselves when starting wars and destroying millions of lives. The real value of this book is as a warning. If these fools ever push to go to war with China (or whoever else they see as competition), they should be opposed by any means necessary.

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