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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to visit Beijing before consolidating partnerships with Japan and South Korea leaves Canada without leverage and weakens its position in dealing with China. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/14/world/canada-undermines-china-engagement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #canada #canadajapanrelations #canadasouthkorearelations #canadachinarelations #markcarney #beijing #indopacific #southkorea #china #danwang #usdonaldtrump #sanaetakaichi

#DanWang compares #SiliconValley and the #CommunistParty, highlighting their shared #seriousness and #lackofhumour. Despite their differences, both are #powerful forces shaping the world. The author, having moved back to the #BayArea, observes its growth and the increasing influence of #AI, while acknowledging its #culturalinsularity and #narrowfocus. https://danwang.co/2025-letter/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#DanWang on What #China and #America Can Learn from Each Other (Ep. 263) https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/dan-wang/

Listening to BREAKNECK: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (2025) - Dan Wang, narrated by Jonathan Yen

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#China #Beijing #DanWang #Breakneck #Engineering #JonathanYen

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

“The simplest idea I present is that China is an engineering state, which brings a sledgehammer to problems both physical and social, in contrast with #America’s lawyerly society, which brings a gavel to block almost everything, good and bad”

As a result, #China prioritizes building colossal public works and exportable products, while the US excels at making and enforcing rules. “What we have in the US is #Authoritarianism without the good stuff,” Wang says, arguing that the disconnect is a recipe for lost #Superpower status.

#DanWang #Book #Books #bookstodon
https://danwang.co/breakneck/

Text Shot: Breakneck begins with a bike ride I took from Guiyang to Chongqing in 2021. China’s fourth-poorest province, I was delighted to find, has much better infrastructure than California or New York, both wealthier by orders of magnitude. Five days of grueling climbs on stunning green mountains gave me glimpses of what socialism with Chinese characteristics really looks like. But there is more to the engineering state than tall bridges. The heart of the book concerns how badly Beijing goes off track when it engages in social engineering. My handy formulation of the Communist Party is that it is a Leninist Technocracy with Grand Opera Characteristics — practical until it collapses into the preposterous.

The idea of the lawyerly society became obvious when I returned to the U.S. in 2023. The Paul Tsai China Center (as I say in my acknowledgments) was the best possible place to write this book, not only because it’s so supportive, but also because it set me inside the Yale Law…

Montage of Dan Hwang with industrial and city buildings

The future

Science fiction has the capacity to inspire by setting the vision of a radically better future, and by making it clear that the future won’t happen unless we put in the work.
~ Dan Wang

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#7ForSunday #DanWang #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #ScienceFiction

Another interesting read by #DanWang – the letter for 2023.

https://danwang.co/2023-letter/

#china #asia

“one of America’s superpowers is to spin up yarns to reduce the urgency for action.” #DanWang https://danwang.co/2023-letter/

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