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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4said about them ↓ Everything Dan Wang said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wang: US infrastructure and clean tech legislation has produced minimal tangible construction
“There's been very little by way of infrastructure actually built by the Infrastructure Act, and there's been very little built by the way of clean technology.”
Wang: In China's economy, consumers and state win while investors lose
“So, you know, socialism with Chinese characteristics also means to me investors and companies kind of lose. They're pretty miserable. Consumers win, and the national government wins.”
Wang: Chinese manufacturers retooled faster than US firms in COVID crisis
“When China had a crisis, as it did in with the COVID pandemic, when it had a production issue, there were a lot of pretty inefficient state-owned enterprises, as well as entrepreneurial firms that had a giant workforce that had a lot of slack in the system, an…”
Wang: U.S.-China competition will last decades, unresolvable by AI alone
“What I want to say is that the competition, I believe, between the U.S. And China will Last for decades. It will not be solved or resolved through any single technology, not even a technology as crucial as artificial intelligence.”
Dan Wang: China is advancing tech capabilities faster than the US
“Over the last 15 years, the U.S. Has a lead on software, no question about that. But its manufacturing and hardware has not gotten that much better. So the Chinese are learning at a much faster rate and patching up their deficiencies than the Americans are.”
Wang: China's foreign policy is engineer-driven infrastructure diplomacy
“The way that I would characterize China's foreign policy is that it's very engineer-driven. They, the way that they conduct a lot of diplomacy in Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as Latin America, is just to go up to these countries. Build some roads. Build …”
Wang: Military conflict between China and Taiwan is not imminent or inevitable
“In his view, the their conflict between Beijing and Taipei is not imminent and not inevitable, and that's kind of my view.”
Wang: About 90% of the solar industry is in China
“And now about 90% of the solar industry is in China, everything from the polysilicon processing down to the final module assembly”
Wang: US Has Not Taken Manufacturing Seriously Since the 1980s
“I think this is one of the things that China really does well is that it takes manufacturing super seriously, and the US has not taken it super seriously since various points in the 19 eighties.”
Wang: Chinese and Americans Are More Alike Than Any Other People
“Chinese and Americans are more alike than any other people.”
Dan Wang: China Lacks US-Style Tech Backlash and Partisan Tech Divide
“China hasn't experienced this broad tech clash that has come across big tech companies in the U S. There is no sense that tech is partisan because nothing in China is allowed to be partisan. There's no sense of a tech right.”
Dan Wang: Shenzhen is probably China's most boring city
“I find Shenzhen probably the most boring city in China. It's a lot of these big office parks. A lot of it is meant for driving. The city layout is actually kind of weird. It's like there's several big hubs that are connected by highways that are pretty distant…”
Wang: Chinese automakers launch new vehicles three times faster than Western peers
“According to these statistics, which are out there, it takes a, an automaker from the US or Japan or Germany, roughly six years to conceptualize of a new model and actually get it out on the roads of a new vehicle. And In China, it's something more like 18 mon…”
Wang: China will add 500GW of solar in 2025 versus US 50GW
“By the end of this year, China is expected to add 500 gigawatts of solar capacity. The U.S. Is expected to add about 50 gigawatts, so just one order of magnitude more.”
Wang: China has 33 nuclear plants under construction versus zero in US
“There's 33 nuclear plants under construction in China right now. There's zero under construction in the U.S.”
Wang: Half of cars sold in China will be electric in 2025
“At this point, by the end of this year, one out of every two cars sold in China will be electric”
Dan Wang: China is a higher-agency society than the US
“I think it's China. I think China is a high agency, high T society where they are really able to, you know, once they decide to do something, they are, you know, once they decide to build this infrastructure, it comes out and it gleams.”
Wang: China demonstrated superior crisis coordination early in COVID-19 vs US
“And at least in the early days of COVID, that's something that China really had where manufacturers were working really well together. Tech companies were making it really clear where the fever clinics were on the mapping services and the government really ste…”
Wang: Multi-trillion-dollar companies require substantial legal protections to exist
“I think the fundamental problem of among lawyers is that they are, for the most part, protectors of the rich. And that is essential in some ways, because you can't build companies worth four trillion dollars, like Nvidia, without substantial legal protections.”
Dan Wang: China's Thriving Consumer Economy Differentiates It from the Soviet Union
“China is, is a Leninist system like the Soviet Union. But it has a thriving, substantial consumer economy, which is doing superbly well in terms of creating all sorts of products that the Soviet Union never created. All it did was a ton of heavy industry. It p…”
Wang: 14,000 millionaires left China in 2023
“By one count 14,000 millionaires departed from China in the year 2023 to move to Singapore, to move to Japan, to move to the UK and the US, in part because the Communist Party has smashed a lot of their businesses.”
Wang: Deng Xiaoping introduced dysfunctions that carry over to Xi Jinping
“Even if we have a Deng Xiaoping-like figure, China might still have a lot of dysfunctions, because I would say that Deng Xiaoping introduced a lot of the dysfunctions that carry over to Xi Jinping.”
Wang: Ideal state capacity lies between the US and China
“One of the, my conclusions, one of my new realizations after writing this book is that Maybe there can be too much state capacity. Maybe you don't want a state to be too efficient. Now, if the engineers are too efficient, and they really decide to track societ…”
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