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Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World
In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating.
Wang theorizes that the academic subjects political leaders study during their formative years later profoundly shapes their respective governance styles. In his book, Wang includes a detailed discussion about Robert Moses, the controversial urban planner who built some of the city’s most famous and enduring infrastructure, but also tore up marginalized neighborhoods in the process. But now that the construction is finished and Wuhan has been completely transformed, Mayor Dig-It-All-Up is remembered fondly by many locals, and he has been elevated by the central government to manage a province in China’s southwest.
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