Jaime Hoerricks, PhD

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1,523 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Jul

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Reset Your Thinking Podcast · Book: Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

We are taking a deep dive into some truly fascinating source material. voice-verified

We're looking at excerpts from Dan Wang's book Breakneck, China's Quest to Engineer the Future. voice-verified

It really is. voice-verified

And the author argues that if you want to understand the defining competition of the twenty first century, you basically have to throw out the whole old capitalism versus communism framework. voice-verified

It's outdated. voice-verified

No, it doesn't. voice-verified

Instead he says you have to look at it as a clash voice-verified

between what he calls the lawyerly society of the United States voice-verified

And the engineering state of China. voice-verified

We've all been there. voice-verified

It really will. voice-verified

But to actually grasp this clash, we first have to look at the literal resumes of the people running both countries. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

Because those environments we just described, the stagnant parking lots and the gleaming subways, they were designed by two entirely different types of mines. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

So the source notes that as a corrective to the ideological chaos of the Mao years, Deng Xiaoping started aggressively promoting physical scientists and engineers. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

And by two thousand two, if you looked at the Politborough's Standing Committee, which is, you know, the absolute apex of the Communist Party, all nine members were trained engineers. voice-verified

Nine out of nine. voice-verified

And it wasn't just that they had degrees on paper, right? voice-verified

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