The hundred-year marathon
"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 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, who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on Chinese documents, speeches, and books (many of them never translated into English) to reveal the roots of this strategy in traditional Chinese statecraft and track how the Chinese are putting it into practice today. Pillsbury shows how American policymakers have been willfully blind to these developments for decades--and he includes himself in that critique, as he was once a leading voice in favor of aiding China. He also calls for the United States to design 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 wakeup call for all Americans concerned about how we have misread the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century"
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- I highly recommend a book on the topic of China's point of view on the world and USA in particular: The Hundred Year Marathon, by Michael Pilsbury. It is a very exciting and thought provoking view of America, from China's perspective.
- To everyone who enjoyed this article I recommend reading Michael Pillsburys book "the hundred year marathon". Michael Pillsbury is one of America's leading experts on American-Chinese foreign policy. It was truly illuminating.
- Non fiction: The Hundred-Year Marathon, by Michael Pillsbury. A very nice review of China's foreign and domestic policy, written by a retired, senior national security advisor to various (USA) Presidents from Nixon on. He was the China expert, who started young, and learned much over his forty(?) year career.
Fiction: Saturn Run, by John Sandford. Very exciting, great characters, science fiction with great science. I would call it a modern science fiction novel. Very Refreshing.
Science/history/cool: Sunburst and Luminary, by Don Eyles. An Apollo Memoir; very exciting, great explanations about programming and designing the navigation and landing computer of the lunar module, with a neat view into the characters and history of the time. Thanks to other HN posts for these suggestions. Happy New Year!
- The Hundred Year Marathon is probably the best of the bunch. https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-Marathon-Strategy-Replac...
Richard McGregor's work on the CCP is also very good and worth reading.
Orville Schell's Wealth And Power is also quite good for politics/history.
- In that case I'd recommend
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower [0] by Hudson Institute's China expert.
and
Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America [1]
These are rather hawkish but unfortunately also nailing the truth.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696000-the-hundred-yea...
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/855077.Unrestricted_Warf...
- Sure take a look at page 9 from this Senate testimony.
https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/111417_Pillsbur...
Michael Pillsbury also wrote a book where I learned about this. It’s called the hundred year marathon. I highly recommend it.
