China’s Hundred Year Marathon with the United States

China is engaged in a secret one-hundred year marathon to overtake the United States in global economic and military might, with a goal to supplant the United States as the world’s dominant power by 2049, argues Michael Pillsbury in a timely new book, The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower. Pillsbury contends that U.S. economic, science, and trade policies have played a sometimes unwitting role in contributing to China’s ascent, and argues that the United States needs to implement a more competitive strategic response to China’s economic mercantilism “as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be.” Please join ITIF for a lively discussion regarding the current state of U.S.-China economic, trade, and national security relations and an exploration of how the U.S.-China competition can and should be structured to generate win-win outcome for both nations and the broader global economy.