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[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner]For decades, the United States has played an indispensable role helping China 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 simply replace us? Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified national security documents, 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.