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Intelligence Squared · 2025-08-20 · 32 min · 5,732 words

What Does China's Seismic Economic Progress Mean for the USA? With Dan Wang

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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. America used to pride itself on ambition. Today it looks stuck. But meanwhile, China has clearly been busy building the future.

Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China's astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West. On today's episode, Wang joins author of Chip War Chris Miller. to discuss a new framework for understanding China and its relationship to the US, one which helps us see global geopolitics more clearly too. Now let's join Chris Miller with more. Welcome everyone.

I'm Chris Miller, professor at the Fletcher School, author of Chip War, and delighted to host this Intelligence Squared podcast with Dan Wang, the author of this extraordinary new book, Breakneck, China's Quest to Engineer the future. Delighted to welcome uh Dan for this uh conversation about both the book and the broader intellectual trajectory that uh led him to write it. So uh first off, uh welcome Dan. Thanks for uh spending uh time with me today to discuss the book.

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