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    Dan Wang
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    Dan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and one of the most cited experts on China’s technological capabilities. He is the author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton, 2025) and a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times. He was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.

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Dan Wang is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton), a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025. Wang is also a contributing opinion writer to the New York Times.

Wang is one of the most cited experts on China’s technological capabilities. He was previously a fellow at the Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and a lecturer at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. From 2017 to 2023, he worked in China as the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, based in Hong Kong and Beijing, and later Shanghai.

In addition to a widely circulated annual letter from China, Wang has written essays that have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, Bloomberg Opinion, and The Atlantic. He has given keynotes for universities, corporations, and financial institutions. Wang studied philosophy at the University of Rochester and previously worked in Silicon Valley.

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