Discussing Liberally Salt Lake City

. Question 1 Does Dan Wang mention in the second page of his Intro (p. x) that he is “a Canadian who has spent almost equal amounts of time living in the United States and China”??? Answer 1 Yes, elaboratng on p. xi, that at age 7 he emigrated from China and immigrated to Canada with his parents, an...

. 1. Does Dan Wang mention in the second page of his Intro (p. x) that he is “a Canadian who has spent almost equal amounts of time living in the United States and China”??? 2. Despite being a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab after serving as a Fellow at the Yale Law Schoo...

. A worthwhile exercise before opening a book is to ask yourself what you expect it to address so that you think reading it is worthwhile. There follow Yours Truly’s preliminary questions. *************** Question 1 As noted on the face of our website’s “Reference Materials” section, does one of the...

. A worthwhile exercise before opening a book is to ask yourself what you expect it to address so that you think reading it is worthwhile. There follow Yours Truly’s preliminary questions. *************** 1. As noted on the face of our website’s “Reference Materials” section, does one of the reviews...

. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/breakneck-review-lawyers-vs-technocrats-1aefcff8 ‘Breakneck’ Review: Lawyers vs. Technocrats The United States is a ‘lawyerly society’ that excels at obstruction. China is an ‘engineering state’ dedicated to technological supremacy. Review by Tunku Varadaraja...

. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/opinion/china-global-superpower-dan-wang.html?searchResultPosition=1 interesting times This Is Why America Is Losing to China Our biggest adversary is waiting for the West to collapse. Hosted by Ross Douthat – a NYT Opinion columnist and the host of the NYT’s “In...

. https://www.economist.com/get-started/registered/welcome?articleId=f876s78k1nm900em5ap4jqsr562ibe04 A new theory of China’s rise: rule by engineers As opposed to America, which is ruled by lawyers By (uncredited) Sep 4th 2025 Many of the people who run China are engineers, and it shows. Since the ...

. https://www.ft.com/content/261a0eaa-7fb9-4052-ac78-f4d8d9969e72 Breakneck — why China’s engineers beat America’s lawyers Dan Wang’s compelling and provocative book explores both the merits and the madness of China’s engineering state John Thornhill - the FT’s innovation editor Published Aug 15 202...

. https://law.stanford.edu/press/lawless-state-capitalism-is-no-answer-to-chinas-rise/ Publish Date: September 17, 2025 Authors: Curtis J. Milhaupt - Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford Univer...

Originally Posted by johnkarls » Mon Sep 08, 2025 3:49 pm – 161 views in Sec. 3 (Possible Topics for Future Meetings) before being transplanted here . I propose that we read “Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future” by Dan Wang (WW Norton & Co 8/26/2025 - 234 pages sans notes & index - $31.9...

. Our Oct 1 Zoom meeting will be very unusual. However, it will be usual insofar as we will go through the focus book (“Chokepoints: American Power In The Age of Economic Warfare” by Columbia Prof. Edward Fishman) chapter by chapter to afford everyone an opportunity to discuss every issue or questio...

. The final paragraph of a 10-page 2,020-word article entitled “The Lies America Tells Itself About The Middle East” dated 9/16/2025 says -- “Over decades, the United States had gradually built an alternate universe. A universe in which happy talk comes true and actions produce promised consequences...

. I propose that we read “As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us” by Sarah Hurwitz (HarperOne 9/9/2025 - 320 pages but probably many fewer sans notes & index - $25.60 + shipping or $14.99 Kindle from Amazon.com). ********** Book Description per Amazon.com (us...

. ********** PART FOUR – CHINA’S BID FOR TECHNOLOGICAL MASTERY Question 1 Does Chapter 36 (The Interpreter) describe Britain’s 4/24/2019 decision to allow China’s Huawei to build Britain’s new 5G telecommunications network??? Was Matt Pottinger (Pres. Trump’s top China expert at the NSC) “the interp...

. ********** PART FOUR – CHINA’S BID FOR TECHNOLOGICAL MASTERY 1. Does Chapter 36 (The Interpreter) describe Britain’s 4/24/2019 decision to allow China’s Huawei to build Britain’s new 5G telecommunications network??? Was Matt Pottinger (Pres. Trump’s top China expert at the NSC) “the interpreter” w...