Episode
Why China builds while America debates, with Dan Wang
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View · Oct 1, 2025 · 50 min
In this episode, I spoke with Dan Wang, author of “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future”. We unpacked a bold thesis: China is not merely a competitor in AI and tech, but is re-imagining its entire state apparatus as an engineering state - in contrast to the more “lawyerly” institutions of the US and UK.