570 | Dan Wang: China's Engineering State, America's Lawyerly Society, and the Competition for the 21st Century
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570 | Dan Wang: China's Engineering State, America's Lawyerly Society, and the Competition for the 21st Century

1:12:02 Aug 26, 2025
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Realignment Newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/Realignment Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail the Show: realignmentpod@gmail.comDan Wang, Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover History Lab and author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Dan discuss China's quest to become a techno-industrial superpower, how China's "engineering state" contrasts with America's "lawyerly society," why China has successfully built megaprojects vs. America's stalled efforts at industrial policy, high speed rail, and electrification, whether both countries have entered into a cold war, and the downsides of the engineering states top-down control. 
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