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MADE IN AMERICA by Xi Van Fleet

MADE IN AMERICA

The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat

by Xi Van Fleet & Yu Jie

Pub Date: Jan. 27th, 2026
ISBN: 9781546009344
Publisher: Center Street/Hachette

Trying to prove that “America’s Woke Revolution” and Mao’s Cultural Revolution are two peas in a pod.

America’s greatest foe, write activists and authors Van Fleet and Yu, is the cabal of “liberals, progressives, gullible conservatives, Communist sympathizers, and fellow travelers in the United States” who have been cheerleaders for and enablers of the Chinese Communist Party. “And that is why today’s Democratic Party has become in many ways nearly indistinguishable from the Chinese Communist Party.” It’s pretty much everyone’s fault, the authors write, from Woodrow Wilson and George Kennan to George H.W. Bush and especially Barack Obama—all of whom precipitated an inexorable slide on this side of the water into Asian despotism until a savior came along: “President Trump’s battle is not only against Chinese Communism; it is also against the Marxist ideological subversion within America itself.” Crush the commie DEI movement? Check. Sever the shared “ideological essence” of the American left and the Chinese Communist Party? Check. Expose the “Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and its assault on America’s values, institutions, and social fabric”? Well, Van Fleet writes, that’s what got her into the right-wing business in the first place, and from there to fame and fortune via Tucker Carlson: “The video with Carlson was retweeted by Elon Musk on X, reaching tens of millions of people.” It’s pretty much warmed-over Bircherism, predictable from start to finish, and painted with the broadest possible brush.

If you buy the notion that Kamala Harris is Xi Jinping in disguise, this is for you.