'China will not replace the United States as a global power'

A researcher at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California, Dan Wang describes himself as "twice an immigrant." At the age of seven, he left China for Canada, before moving to the United States at 16. Having also lived in China from 2017 to 2023, he became an influential analyst of the country's economy and technology sector. In Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, he explores the rivalry between the world's two largest powers, which he sees as sharing certain similarities. Americans and Chinese have the same appetite for consumption, the same pragmatism and the same passion for technological progress.