H. Burak Erten has been an international business leader, strategic and financial advisor, real estate expert, and a key player in global affairs for over 27 years, working with investors, companies, and government spanning from the U.S. to Europe. He is the principal for The Center for Transatlantic Economic Partnership (CTEP), executive director of Q Group, and president of US Institutional Capital Investments, LLC (USIC), a strategic advisory firm that serves as a gateway between U.S. capital markets and emerging market economies by way of assisting and advising in the deployment of U.S. institutional capital to foreign governments, financial institutions, and projects. With both U.S. and E.U. capital markets expertise, Burak specializes in financial architecture, structuring and risk mitigation, structured finance, governmental advisory, and international commerce partnerships. As a respected authority on the geopolitical and geoeconomic stage, he’s dealt with over 50 emerging market governments and institutions, shared his views in international economic and trade forums and in the EU Parliament Independent Press Agency, and serves as senior policy advisor for the COH Foundation in Palm Beach, Florida.Now, Burak is bringing together the collective forces of those three organizations to help reverse what he sees as the greatest challenge to the security, prosperity, and standing of not only the United States and its people, but all of humanity—China. His sights are now set on what he views as the key to it all—helping to bring U.S. manufacturing back home to return the country to its economic glory. “Manufacturing is an essential part of a robust economy for our homeland, which, in turn, benefits all of humanity,” he says. “Every period of chaos presents the opportunity to make a better world. It’s time for the U.S. to seize this opportunity now.”At the same time, Burak recognizes that it will take an international village to lead global markets out of the China quagmire. To this end, his upcoming book, Prosperity Bonds, is an unabashed call to action for the G7 to step up—and he provides the mechanisms to do so in the form of innovative, practical solutions for the deployment of U.S. capital to frontier markets. “We have massive amounts of capital in the U.S., but it’s not being deployed on a meaningful level, and traditional models are not working,” he says. “I wrote the Prosperity Bonds to serve as a playbook for the G7 to create more connectivity between the U.S./G7 and frontier markets.”Burak points to the convergence of a vibrant U.S. manufacturing sector and meaningful involvement of its capital to foreign markets as a triumph for the betterment of all. “Bringing manufacturing, yields, and prosperity back home while uplifting the economies of frontier markets will create new middle-income classes geared for our U.S. brands, products and services,” he explains. “That’s why I’m focusing on a growing number of domestic manufacturing projects and writing the book, with the hope of contributing to this effort.”Burak met with us to talk about his views on China and how his companies are helping to revive U.S. manufacturing and the global economy, and he also shares a preview of Prosperity Bonds