Author Debriefing: The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

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🗓️ 3 February 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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? Mike 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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the CyberWire Network, powered by N2K.
0:07.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to an author debriefing from the International Spy Museum.
0:19.0	I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.
0:23.3	Here at the museum we get the most interesting authors, including journalists, scholars, former
0:28.4	spies, and intelligence officers coming in to speak with our visitors and answer questions about
0:33.8	their latest works dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other national security issues.
0:38.6	Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefers.
0:44.0	Our guest today is Michael Pillsbury, who is a senior fellow and the Director of the Center for Chinese
0:48.4	Strategy at the Hudson Institute.
0:50.4	He is a distinguished defense policy advisor, former high-ranking government official, and author of numerous books and reports on China.
0:57.0	During the Reagan administration, Pillsbury was assistant undersecretary of defense for policy planning
1:02.0	and was responsible for the implementation of the program of covert aid known as the Reagan Doctrine.
1:07.0	In 1975 and 76, while an analyst at the Rand Corporation, Pillsbury published articles in foreign policy and international security
1:14.4	recommending that the United States established intelligence and military ties with China.
1:18.9	The proposal publicly commended by Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, and James Schlesinger later became U.S. policy during the Carter and Reagan administrations.
1:27.8	Pillsbury also served on the staff of four U.S. Senate committees from 1978 to 1984 and 1986 to 1991. As a staff member
1:36.2	Pillsbury drafted the Senate Labor Committee version of the legislation that
1:39.2	enacted the US Institute of Peace in 1984 and he also assisted in drafting legislation to create the National Endowment for Democracy and the annual report for DoD report on Chinese military power.
1:49.0	Michael Pillsbury was educated at Stanford University where he received a BA in history and he received
1:54.4	his MA and PhD at Columbia University when for whatever reason he changed from history to
1:59.1	political science. Pillsbury is also the author of China Debates The Future Security Environment, came out in 2000,
2:05.0	and the editor of Chinese Views of Future Warfare, which was released in 1998.
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