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“Chinese leaders were just enough exposed to the West to absorb [their] neo-Malthusian doomerism, without being exposed enough to the Western pushback against it.”
― Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

“China is an engineering state, building big at breakneck speed, in contrast to the United States’ lawyerly society, blocking everything it can, good and bad.”
― Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

“But at some point – a point I think we are well past, given the body of research – the
weight of the evidence is so strong that the most reasonable conclusion is that even
if there were some unobservable differences between single and married parents,
the thing staring at us from the data is overwhelming: having a second parent in the
home, with the added resources (money, time, etc.) that second parent brings, is, on
average, beneficial for children’s outcomes.”
― Melissa S. Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

“American manufactures spent the better part of three decades unwinding its stock of process knowledge when it opened so many factories in China. Every US factory closure represents a likely permanent loss of production skill and knowledge. Line workers, machinists, and product designers are thrown out of work; then their suppliers and technical advisers struggle as well. Entire American communities of engineering practice have dissolved, leaving behind a region known as the Rust belt. But they were continuously scorned by economists and executives, who sought low-wage production in the name of globalization. Still today, many American economists doubt there is anything special about manufacturing and put their faith in the inevitable march to a service economy.”
― Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future