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How China’s Engineering Mindset Won the Clean-Tech Race
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Kira Colburn
Kira Colburn

During a conversation at the SOSV Climate Tech Summit, tech analyst Dan Wang and Bloomberg’s Akshat Rathi discuss what the world can learn from China and how the US could start to compete on green tech in the future. In Wang’s new book Breakneck, he argues China’s engineering mindset has given it an edge in all sorts of domains, including climate technologies, while America’s lawyerly mindset is holding it back.

In this discuss they answer, why has China been able to build, while many far richer countries have fallen behind? It’s not just because China is a dictatorship, its a much more vivid picture of the social, cultural and governance differences that have turned China into a nation of builders.

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