How two superpowers built fundamentally different futures | Dan Wang and Kmele Foster

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“China has built essentially one New York City plus a Boston's worth of housing every single year for roughly the last 30 years.”

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What does it mean to witness a society transform at breakneck speed? Kmele Foster and Dan Wang explore the contrasts between the U.S. and China.

Through the lens of immigration, culture, and personal experience, they reveal how policies and national ambition have redefined these two global superpowers.

0:00 China’s rapid progress
7:17 China’s first-tier city wealth boom
11:02 The contrast between China and the U.S.
12:50 American elites as lawyers
17:33 Chinese innovation and competition
21:00 “Made in China”
22:37 American manufacturing challenges
24:56 Autocratic societies and innovation
28:06 One of China’s biggest challenges
31:22 U.S. Tariffs and the trade war
38:06 Law students and the federal government
43:28 The benefit of a lawyerly society
51:37 U.S. and China's futures

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