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Author Edouard Prisse shares the insights and knowledge on the history behind the current economic strife between China and the U.S. in the book “Sleeping with the Enemy.”

THE SYNOPSIS

A Wake-Up Call for the West

For decades, Western leaders assumed that deeper economic integration with China would produce stability, openness, and shared prosperity. Instead, those policies helped accelerate China’s wealth accumulation and strategic leverage.

In Sleeping With the Enemy: What the White House Still Misses on China, independent political observer Edouard Prisse examines the political, economic, and media assumptions that shaped Western policy toward China—and the consequences of those assumptions today.

This book argues that prevailing free-trade orthodoxies and elite consensus have obscured the long-term risks of economic dependence. By revisiting the decisions, predictions, and narratives that shaped public understanding, Prisse challenges readers to reconsider what the West believed about globalization—and what those beliefs may have cost.

THE REVIEW

This is a thoughtfully written and well-researched book. The author does a great job of giving insight and knowledge that the reader can sink their teeth into. The author writes in a straightforward, fact-based manner that gives the book a tone and an insightful, educational atmosphere that readers can easily learn from.

The history and the political nature of this book’s main thesis were the real draw of its core message. The author takes the time to go back over the last two decades economically and shows how relations between the US and China, as well as Free trade as a whole, and China’s response to it, have impacted the economic structures of China and the US today. The book’s fast pace allows for succinct, clear talking points that readers can pick up on and further educate themselves on as the book progresses.

THE VERDICT

Memorable, educational, and thought-provoking, Author Edouard Prisse’s “Sleeping with the Enemy” is a must-read non-fiction work that blends economics, history, and politics. The knowledge and detailed research the author provides, along with commentary on international relations and their effects on wealth and the global economy as a whole, offer readers a unique opportunity to learn and understand the path to fully appreciate the economy as it stands today. If you haven’t yet, please be sure to grab your coffee today!

Rating: 10/10

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I am an independent European political observer. My background is MA Dutch law, Mba Insead Busness School, you know the one that was set up in France with the help of Harvard Business School in 1960; studied John Maynard Keynes, specialised legally in different forms of powerstructures in nations, have a basis in Maths and Phjysics, an experience as business consultant and in beween as legal adviser. I have been seriously married twice and have five wonderful children who warm the heart. I deeply love classical music, have house concerts at my home and try to play the piano.

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