Dan Wang
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dan Wang is the author of Breakneck and is widely known for his annual letters examining Chinese manufacturing and US-China technology competition. A Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, he previously served as a technology analyst for Gavekal Dragonomics.
2shows
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80statements
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1contradicted
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Dan Wang: China's fundamental flaw is treating society as raw building material
“The fundamental problem with China is that they're not just physical engineers, they're also social engineers, and they treat society as if it were just another building material, and I object strongly to their practices around ethno-religious minorities in Ti…”
Dan Wang: China will reach moon by 2030 while US may fail
“I think there's a pretty strong sense now that China will get to the moon by the end of the 20 twenties, and America might not be able to get back to the moon.”
Dan Wang: America's apex manufacturers like Boeing, Intel, Tesla are going downhill
“But if we take a look at many of America's apex manufacturers, companies like Boeing making aviation, Intel making chips, Detroit and Tesla making vehicles, mostly that's been going downhill.”
Wang: China will not implode; US-China competition is a long-term grind
“There is no implosion. When one side is ahead, the other side will overstep, and then the, then, and then they'll need to catch up. And so I want to say that there is no winner here. There is no loser here. It's not a race. Nobody gets to hit the win button. A…”
Wang: China's CCP Cannot Build Long-Term Stability Without Debate
“I don't feel like the Communist Party has Mastered some autocratic formula in order to really build to the future, because they cannot have anything like debate, discussion, and a long-term stable society.”
Wang: US builds technological ladders, but Chinese firms climb them
“The U.S., in my words, is really great at setting a lot of ladders in place, but its firms are no longer really great at climbing these ladders. It is really the Chinese firms that are able to climb all of these big technological ladders.”
Dan Wang: Rebuilding US manufacturing is harder than China mastering scientific research
“I think that it is harder for the US. The task is comparatively simpler for China and China has already gotten significantly better at a lot of these scientific projects that used to be, you know, only the preserve of American universities and a few other plac…”
Dan Wang: Chinese researchers produce an increasing share of top-cited science papers
“By most metrics that we can identify, Chinese scientists are producing better qualities of work, not just quantity. If we take a look at some of the most, the top one percent cited scientific papers, Chinese researchers are producing an increasing share of man…”
Wang: Shenzhen and Silicon Valley Invent the Future, Not Europe or Japan
“They're the two great founts of entrepreneurial dynamism in the world. It is Shenzhen and Silicon Valley that are inventing the future and not so much Europe and Japan. Any longer.”
Wang: Europe is a mausoleum economy where things are structurally dead
“On my very first page, I denounce Europe for being a mausoleum economy where things are very beautiful, but things are also very dead.”
Wang: 30-year US bet that markets would liberalize China failed
“The US strategy over the last 30 years has been to kind of hope that markets and the internet will change China for the better and change this
Communist system into something more like a liberal democracy. And that bet has not worked out.”
Dan Wang: China's Openness to Western Manufacturing Outperformed Japan's Closed Export Model
“By contrast, China has been much more open than Japan. China, most famously, is well known for building Apple's iPhones and Tesla's vehicles, and it, the communist system recognized that it was so far behind technological leaders, mostly through open the doors…”
Dan Wang: China Combines Soviet Control, Japanese Manufacturing, and US Entrepreneurship
“China right now has some of the control paranoia of the Soviet Union some of the manufacturing excellence of Japan, and some of the American entrepreneurial hustle. You combine all of that, and I think that is part of the reason that I think that China is goin…”
Wang: China will not become a cultural superpower due to censorship
“I think that China will not become anything like a cultural superpower, in part because the engineers Are so censorious. They're so thin-skinned. They censor everything they can't understand, which is a lot.”
Wang: China will not become a major financial superpower
“I think that China will not become anything like a big financial superpower, in part because the control tendencies of the engineers is to impose a lot of capital controls and the That makes it much more difficult for foreigners to want to hold RMB.”
Wang: China has historically lacked a liberal tradition restraining state power
“I think that China throughout its imperial history has substantially lacked a liberal tradition a liberal tradition meaning one that is interested in restraining the power of the emperor and
you know, promoting the power of the individual or the family or the…”
Wang: US Holds Decisive AI Lead Over China Due to Nvidia Chips
“Today, I think that the US still has a decisive lead on most aspects of artificial intelligence mostly because it has the compute resources here. It has the leading NVIDIA chips, and China does not.”
Wang: US-China AI Competition Is a Five-Year Toss-Up
“But I think if we are going to have much more AI in our lives, I think the competition is much more of a toss-up. Again, looking forward in the next five years, which is a lifetime by the standards of a lot of AI, but maybe, maybe a shorter time span for the r…”
Wang: Majority of Disclosed Meta AI Lab Hires Attended Chinese Universities
“And at least from what we can tell in some of the publicly listed hires for Meta's super intelligence lab a substantial number of these really elite. I think there are 11 engineers who are publicly disclosed. Something like seven of them had gone to Chinese un…”
Wang: America gets AI McKinsey, while China gets AI Foxconn
“And, you know, to be very glib here, I, I'll say that, you know, maybe America gets a much better McKinsey, and China gets a much better Foxconn, and then they're gonna use this much better AI Foxconn to produce a lot more drones and munitions and ships as wel…”
Wang: Chinese State Forbids DeepSeek From Communicating With Foreigners
“These companies generally don't like to talk to foreigners at the best of times. And then you have, An overbearing state that in some cases forbids deep seek from chatting with foreigners.”
Wang: Export controls will not easily derail China's tech momentum
“A lot of these investments have been in place for 10 years, some for 15 years and there's no easy thing, not export controls
That will derail this tech engine very easily.”
Wang: Autocratic repression and technological dynamism can grow simultaneously
“Repression can grow worse while technological dynamism grows richer.”
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