--- product_id: 26732682 title: "- The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower" price: "114.69 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/26732682-the-hundred-year-marathon-chinas-secret-strategy-to-replace-america store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # - The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower **Price:** 114.69 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** - The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower - **How much does it cost?** 114.69 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/26732682-the-hundred-year-marathon-chinas-secret-strategy-to-replace-america) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description #1 National Bestseller Featured on the Secretary of the Air Force's Reading List for 2026 “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 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. 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: Very important reading to open your eyes - This reading really get open your eyes how China is going to be a hegemonic power ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #17,159 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #9 in Asian Politics #9 in National & International Security (Books) #10 in Chinese History (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 3,661 Reviews | ## Images ![- The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71nYlSSSpVL.jpg) ## 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very important reading to open your eyes *by R***E on April 25, 2026* This reading really get open your eyes how China is going to be a hegemonic power ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower - Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America - Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/26732682-the-hundred-year-marathon-chinas-secret-strategy-to-replace-america](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/26732682-the-hundred-year-marathon-chinas-secret-strategy-to-replace-america) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-06-23*