Book Talk With Dan Wang: "Breakneck: China's Quest To Engineer The Future" | Hoover Institution

> "[China is] the **engineering state**... they treat the physical environment as just a big engineering exercise... building yet another **mega project** as the answer to almost any of their problems." — **Dan Wang** (Context: Defining the nature of the Chinese state) [[00:06:47](https://youtu.be/eXsehDq-LiM?t=407)] > "I contrast that with this country [the US], which I call the **lawyerly society**... It feels…