Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang

Update: 2025-08-25

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Dan Wang is a technology analyst and author whose life experience, spent partly in North America, partly in China, sets him up as an authoritative observer of the differences and similarities between the American and Chinese empires. In conversation with Aaron Bastani, Wang shares his thesis that elite overproduction of engineers in China, and lawyers in […]

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Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang

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Downstream: China Is Building While the West Crumbles w/ Dan Wang