Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred‑Year Marathon is a provocative, deeply researched account arguing that China has pursued a long‑term, strategically patient plan to surpass the United States and reshape the global order. Drawing on decades of intelligence work, internal Chinese sources, and historical analysis, Pillsbury reveals how misread signals, wishful Western assumptions, and carefully crafted deception have allowed Beijing to advance its ambitions largely unnoticed. Urgent, unsettling, and sharply argued, the book becomes a powerful examination of how great‑power competition unfolds in slow motion—and what the U.S. must understand to avoid being overtaken.
Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred‑Year Marathon is a provocative, deeply researched account arguing that China has pursued a long‑term, strategically patient plan to surpass the United States and reshape the global order. Drawing on decades of intelligence work, internal Chinese sources, and historical analysis, Pillsbury reveals how misread signals, wishful Western assumptions, and carefully crafted deception have allowed Beijing to advance its ambitions largely unnoticed. Urgent, unsettling, and sharply argued, the book becomes a powerful examination of how great‑power competition unfolds in slow motion—and what the U.S. must understand to avoid being overtaken.
