The pace of work on new infrastructure projects in the US is glacial, and in China there is no sign that rule by law will give way to the rule of law.

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
DAN WANG

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Dan Wang is a Chinese Canadian technology analyst who was born in Yunnan, moved across the Pacific with his parents at the age of seven and has since spent almost as much time in the United States as in China. He is thus well placed to judge the two giants vying for global hegemony. Breakneck is a stimulating read about what the one could learn from the other, though the author’s seeming optimism about mutual convergence at the start of the book is tempered by its later chapters.

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