Michael Pillsbury Books

"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"-- Provided by publisher

"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"--

Featuring over 600 quotations from more than 200 Chinese authors, this study presents a unique glimpse into the perspectives of Chinese scholars from 1994 to 1999. With minimal analysis, it allows these voices to articulate their views on critical debates surrounding China's future security environment. Many authors were interviewed in China, shedding light on often-concealed discussions that are essential for understanding the foundations of China's national strategy and tracking potential changes in these views.

Michael Pillsbury, sinolog a bezpečnostní analytik, odhaluje v aktuální knize, jak Čína systematicky usiluje o to, aby dohnala a předstihla Spojené státy a stala se globální supervelmocí. Tento strategický plán, nazvaný "Stoletý maraton", má vyvrcholit v roce 2049, kdy Čína oslaví sté výročí komunistické revoluce. Čínská vláda při realizaci tohoto záměru postupuje trpělivě a rafinovaně, čerpajíc inspiraci z historických tradic, které sahají až do období Válčících států před více než dvěma tisíci lety. Pillsbury upozorňuje na to, jak Čína využívá neinformovanost a naivitu západní veřejnosti, což nám brání vidět, jak se rýsuje vážná bezpečnostní hrozba. Autor argumentuje, že Západ, zejména Spojené státy, nevědomky pomáhaly Číně na cestě k dosažení jejího cíle stát se první globální supervelmocí. Pillsbury svou analýzu opírá o hluboké znalosti Číny, které získal studiem a přímými kontakty s čínskými exulanty a představiteli čínského intelektuálního a politického establishmentu. Vysocí čínští vojenskí činitelé a zástupci ministerstva státní bezpečnosti mu poskytli unikátní pohled na své geostrategické úvahy a plány. Tato dlouholetá zkoumání vedla k publikaci, která od svého vydání vzbudila značný zájem mezi odborníky i širokou veřejností.