Why China builds faster than the rest of the world
undefined 2, 2025
In Breakneck, Dan Wang frames the US as a “lawyerly society” and China as an “engineering state,” shaped by leaders’ professional backgrounds, lawyers in the US favor compliance, engineers in China favor rapid, large-scale projects. He argues the US should recover some engineering ambition, citing Robert Moses and Wuhan’s rapid subway expansion, while China could benefit from more legal safeguards. Wang suggests learning from each other, balancing infrastructure drive with procedural accountability.
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