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Can the US Beat China’s Engineering State?
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From high-speed rail to electric cars to batteries to AI, it’s clear that China can operate with incredible speed at massive scale. Can the US still compete?
We sat down with Dan Wang, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” to discuss.
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Introduction
Lawyers vs. Engineers: Cultural and Economic Differences
Urban and Rural Life: Comparing Infrastructure
Barriers to Progress: Regulation and Governance
Industrial Policy and Public-Private Partnerships
The Double-Edged Sword of Legal and Engineering Mindsets
Social Engineering and Policy in China
Competition, Intellectual Property, and Business Culture
Manufacturing, Scale, and Global Supply Chains
Lessons from Japan and Korea
Complacency, Quality, and the Future of Competition
Strategic Resources and Industrial Policy
Foreign Policy: Engineering Diplomacy vs. Alliances
Taiwan, Demographics, and the Future of US-China Relations
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