China's ambition to replace US as world's superpower revealed

China's ambition to replace US as the world's superpower has been revealed in a new book "The Hundred-Year Marathon" by Michael Pillsbury, an expert on China who has worked with every US president since Nixon.

According to New York Post, Pillsbury readily admits that, as a key influencer of US government policy toward China for the past four decades, he had long been one of many in the federal government pushing the US toward full cooperation with China, including heavy financial and technological support, under the belief that the country was headed in a more democratic, free-market direction.

In the book, Pillsbury also talks about China's objective to include "electromagnetic combat superiority" that would allow for "naval victory," and "tactical laser weapons" that would "be used first in anti-missile defense systems."

The author describes how the Chinese intended to obstruct and destroy radar and various communications systems, and the use of computer viruses to defeat the US, the report added.