{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Tiffany Marie Brannon Show","title":"Edouard Prisse: Why Free Trade with China was stupid and brought destruction to the West","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2913,"description":"China did not just become powerful by accident - it was enabled by one of the biggest policy failures in modern history.\nTiffany Marie Brannon and independent researcher Edouard Prisse break down how Clinton-era free trade, Western denial, and decades of cheap imports hollowed out industry, transferred know-how, and left the U.S. and Europe dangerously dependent.\nPrisse, author of Sleeping with the Enemy: What the White House Still Misses on China, explains why so many leaders got China wrong, why the usual free-trade arguments collapse under real economic scrutiny, and how the West helped create the very machine now squeezing its own manufacturers, workers, and consumers. Tiffany brings a deeply personal perspective from a family in plastics injection molding, where the damage was not abstract - it reshaped livelihoods, expertise, and generational legacy.You’ll discover:\n \nWhy Clinton’s China trade promises were, in Prisse’s words, economically backwards from the start \nHow Western elites, economists, and trade institutions failed to stop the drift\nWhy tariffs alone are not enough without a deliberate plan to rebuild domestic industry \nHow a step-by-step reindustrialization strategy could close the gap in as little as four years\nWhy cheap goods can mask a much larger cost to sovereignty, supply chains, and national strength\n \nPrisse also outlines the blunt reality behind China’s export model, why certain industries are already lost unless they are intentionally brought back, and what a serious government response would actually look like. It is a conversation about economics, but also about memory, power, and whether Western countries still have the courage to reverse course.If you care about manufacturing, trade, geopolitics, or the future of the West, this episode is essential listening. It is sharp, provocative, and strangely hopeful - a reminder that the situation is not fixed, and that decline is a choice, not a destiny.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fqguuXVwFp4XqIEZj661kYwVmf4zfAC6hahHt8xyZ7I/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mN2Yy/NzY5NmIwM2E4YThl/NmE1NWQ3NjgxOTE1/OGZiOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}