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Balaji Srinivasan speaks with Dan Wang, author of Breakneck, about China’s industrial rise, America’s competing strengths in software and finance, and what happens when an engineering state and a lawyerly state collide. The conversation covers manufacturing dominance, the future of the dollar, why both superpowers keep making costly mistakes, and where builders fit into what comes next.
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