🔮 Breakneck China: From superprojects to social engineeringA conversation with Dan Wang (Breakneck) + exclusive research notesEvery so often, a book rearranges how you think. Dan Wang’s Breakneck is one such book. Its core provocation is that China operates as an engineering state, optimised for building, while the United States has evolved into a lawyerly society, optimised for blocking. Dan and I have been trying to meet in person for months. At various points we tried to line up meetings in San Francisco, Shenzhen and DC but our travel schedules kept crossing. So we settled for the next best thing: I read Breakneck and we recorded this conversation! Jump to the best parts:Exclusive for members: Our internal research notesFor every major EV conversation, we build a research pack to sharpen the discussion. For the first time, we’ve adapted our research notes for members. Inside you’ll find: ✅ Dan Wang’s essential ideas, quotes, and strategic claims Think of it as a reader’s guide to Dan’s thesis – a way to follow the conversation while also drawing on the deeper research that informs it... Subscribe to Exponential View to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Exponential View to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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Thursday, 2 October 2025
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