No. I have enormous respect for Chinese business execution. The quality, the scale, the coordination. It is brilliant. But brilliance in service of systematic industrial domination is still domination. This book exposes the encirclement strategy and offers a counterattack. That is not anti-China. That is pro-survival.
Protectionism is blocking competition. What I describe is stopping state-sponsored industrial annihilation. When a country deliberately builds 90% of global capacity, crashes prices below cost using subsidies, and maintains a 20% undervalued currency, that is not trade. That is conquest. Defending yourself is not protectionism. It is common sense.
Sixty years advising Fortune 100 CEOs and boards across all industries and major geographies. Over thirty years working with Chinese companies and serving on Chinese boards. I witnessed the 90% Model get executed industry by industry. I was in the rooms where these strategies were designed. I know how the machine works.
No. But we are close. If we coordinate with allies, address currency manipulation, rebuild critical manufacturing, and deploy reverse chokepoints, we can break the 90% Model in three to five years. But it requires action now. Not studies. Not committees. Action. This book is the blueprint.
The book has a step-by-step framework for extrication. It is not easy. It is not cheap. But it is necessary. The companies that start now will survive. The ones that wait will be forced out with no plan, no alternatives, and no time.
Some prices will increase in specific sectors: defense, semiconductors, chemicals, automobiles and others. The alternative is allowing China to maintain chokehold over our entire economy. When China can shut down our defense industry with a single announcement, as they demonstrated October 10, 2025, the cost of dependence becomes existential. The book details which sectors will see price increases and why the transitional pain is worth long-term resilience.
This is the most dangerous myth in American business. China’s $1 trillion trade surplus in 2024 and 2025 proves they have built an economy that extracts wealth from us while maintaining strategic independence. They systematically reduced dependency on us, using our own knowhow to do it, while we increased our dependency on them. The asymmetry is deliberate and devastating. We do have reverse chokepoints: China’s rare earth processing and semiconductor fabs depend on Western inputs. And others. But these only matter if we coordinate their use through convergence with allies.
