The Hundred-Year Marathon - by Michael Pillsbury

The Hundred-Year Marathon is a groundbreaking book that reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power by 2049.

Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified documents, the book provides an inside look at how the Chinese view America and its leaders - as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise.

The author, 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 to show how traditional Chinese statecraft underpins their actions.

The book provides a sobering corrective to what has long been the dominant, soothing narrative of Sino-American cooperation and challenges Americans to design a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is - not as we might wish it to be.

Don't miss out on this provocative and thought-provoking read that will change the way you think about China and its relationship with the United States.