Update: What makes China work despite the pain in society?' asks analyst Dan Wang

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In this edition of Perspective, FRANCE 24’s Stuart Norval speaks to Dan Wang, a China expert whose book ‘Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future’ is a New York Times bestseller. The report also notes that It takes a close look at Chinese life and draws from Wang’s own ten years of living there. Wang states the China and the US are some of the most similar people in the world, as they are both hustlers and take shortcuts.

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