by Lee Smith
First published 2025
Lee Smith reveals how America's political and corporate leaders forged a dangerous partnership with the Chinese Communist Party over fifty years. The New York Times bestselling investigative journalist traces this alliance from Henry Kissinger's covert negotiations with Mao through modern tech executives courting Xi Jinping. Smith documents how this collaboration enriched Wall Street while gutting American manufacturing and compromising national security. He shows how globalist forces, Silicon Valley giants, and major media outlets worked to hide China's abuses as they dismantled America's industrial base. The book chronicles Donald Trump's disruption of this established order and the resulting conflict between America First policies and entrenched pro-China interests. Smith examines battles over trade policy, TikTok restrictions, fentanyl trafficking, and financial entanglements. He provides new details about Elon Musk's expanding influence, Joe Biden's China connections, and how American universities became part of Beijing's intelligence operations. Smith offers readers a comprehensive account of what he calls the most perilous alliance in recent history and the ongoing struggle to break free from Chinese influence.
Genres: history, business, political-science, politics, non-fiction, 21st-century, current-affairs, american-history
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism, political-thriller
Setting: America, China, Silicon Valley, Wall Street
Period: 1970s, 2010s, 2020s, 50 Years
271 pages · Kindle Edition · Center Street