Unmade in China is a clearheaded book that cuts through the China hype, challenging hackneyed narratives about China’s economic supremacy. Jeremy Haft’s analysis of China’s intricate supply chains reveals an economy which struggles to make baby formula safely, much less a nuclear power plant.

Informed by years of experience building new companies in China, extensive research and case-studies, and backed up with the facts and figures to prove it, Haft uncovers a reality of systemic risk at the heart of Chinese manufacturing that provides the US and Europe with both challenges and opportunities. His view from the inside reveals a startling picture of rampant non-compliance in product quality, process control, management protocols and governance in Chinese manufacturing and supply that has created increased demand for US-made products and services in China. Indeed, China is importing goods from America and Europe in such volume that millions of jobs in the West are sustained through Chinese trade and investment, from farmers to architects. In Unmade in China Haft presents a convincing case for harnessing this opportunity by selling safety into China and opening up to Chinese investment.

This is both a sobering assessment of the chronic risks in China’s manufacture and supply chains and a heartening look at how businesses in the West can find opportunity in these challenges selling goods and services to China.

Jeremy R. Haft has been starting and building companies in China for fifteen years. He is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and author of All the Tea in China: How to Buy, Sell, and Make Money on the Mainland (2007). Haft’s analysis on China trade has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Forbes, The Huffington Post, CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC.