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China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.

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Dan Wang argues that the U.S. has a lot to learn from China. He also says that “no two peoples are more alike.” We have questions.

If you are an American, how do you think about the relationship between the U.S. and China? You may see China as a political and economic bully, and a thief of American intellectual property. You may see China as a hardcore surveillance state, internally and externally; maybe a propaganda state too. But you probably don’t think about the relationship between China and the U.S. the way that Dan Wang, our guest on this week’s episode of Freakonomics Radio, thinks about it: I think that no two peoples are more alike. They have a hastiness around them. They have a sense of being willing to take…

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