The Lawyerly Society vs. The Engineering State: Who Owns the Future?
October 6, 2025
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as posted by the channelFrom 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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