Michael Pillsbury, the former Rand analyst who first advocated selling weapons to the PRC, alleged in his 2015 book The Hundred-Year Marathon that China had harbored a secret plan to surpass America since the first days of its revolution in 1949. With the zeal of the converted, Pillsbury declared that it was time for the United States to get tough with China. The People’s Republic, he declared, “has failed to meet nearly all of our rosy expectations.”
