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🇨🇳 A new theory of China’s rise: rule by engineers / The Economist
｢ China is an “engineering state”, locked in competition with America, which is run by lawyers. China builds things quickly. America debates endlessly about whether they should be built at all. How did China, a country that was once known mostly for intellectual-property theft and child labour, become a technological powerhouse? ｣