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Free trade was promised as a win-win. In the real world, it often became a one-way street: open markets on one side, strategic protection on the other. This book is not an argument for tariffs without purpose. It is not a call for isolationism. It is a clear, evidence-driven framework for understanding a new reality: in the 21st century, economics is national security. Supply chains can be disrupted or weaponized. Energy policy can determine industrial survival. Cheap imports can quietly hollow out the productive capacity that makes a nation resilient in crisis. Why ""America First"" is a global trend explains why the era of naïve globalization is ending-and why the United States is now shifting toward strategic trade, reindustrialization, and economic sovereignty. It also shows why Europe faces the same challenge but struggles to move with the same speed: a slower administrative machine, layered regulations, and a union that often acts less like one country and more like many countries negotiating competing interests. Inside, you will discover: Why ""free markets"" stop being free when competitors subsidize, manipulate, and plan for decades How globalization turned supply chains into vulnerabilities-and what resilience actually costs Why ""cheap imports"" often mean expensive consequences: lost capacity, weakened innovation, strategic dependence Europe as a warning case: ambitious policies without industrial protection, energy shocks, and structural dependency China's strategic playbook: state capitalism, industrial policy, and trade as geopolitical leverage The American shift: tariffs as a tool, strategic trade, reshoring, and the return of industrial policy What ""free markets with borders"" can look like-without slogans, and without partisan noise If you want to understand why the global economy is fragmenting, why industrial policy is back, and why ""America First"" is increasingly a global trend rather than an American exception, this book gives you the lens to see what's happening-and what comes next. The old era rewarded efficiency above all. The next era will reward nations that protect what matters.

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