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New nonfiction · 2025

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

2025 book

Summary

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future is a nonfiction book by Dan Wang published by W. W. Norton & Company in August 2025. The book examines China's growing technological and geopolitical profile, contrasting it with the United States under the thesis that "America is run by lawyers, and China is run by engineers".

From the Wikipedia article “Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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