Breakneck: China's quest to engineer the future
Speaker
America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang has lived through China’s exponential progress. He has also witnessed the difficulties that have accompanied this progress within China and the dissolution of China’s relationship to the West.
At this event Dan Wang and Professor Alexander Evans discuss Wang's new book, Breakneck: China's quest to engineer the future.
Please join us as they examine the rapid developments in Chinese technology, the impact this growth has had on Chinese society, and what this means for the future of geopolitics.
Following the conversation between Dan and Alexander, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions. The event will conclude with a book signing and drinks reception.
Meet our speaker and chair
Dan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover History Lab at Stanford University. He was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, working in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. Dan is the author of an annual letter from China and has published essays in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, New York Magazine and the Atlantic.
Professor Alexander Evans OBE FRHistS is an Associate Dean at the LSE School of Public Policy. A Professor in Practice in Public Policy, he teaches graduate courses on international diplomacy and technology, data science and policymaking. He is a former senior British diplomat who has served as an Adviser to the Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street, Deputy and Acting High Commissioner to India and (briefly) Pakistan and led a UN Security Council expert group in New York.
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