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How China’s Engineering Mindset Won the Clean-Tech Race
What does China get right – and wrong – in its relentless quest to build? Dan Wang, author of Breakneck, joins Zero to explain.
Components for offshore wind turbines waiting to be loaded onto ships at the Dongying Offshore Wind Power Equipment Industrial Park in Dongying, Shandong province.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/BloombergIn his new book Breakneck, tech analyst Dan Wang 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.
This week on Zero, Wang tells Akshat Rathi what the world can learn from China and how the US could start to compete on green tech in the future.