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⚙️ Why China is an “Engineering State” and America is a “Lawyerly Society”
In this provocative keynote, the speaker explores a defining contrast of our age: one superpower that builds, and another that blocks.

China constructs high-speed rails, bridges, and entire cities in years. America debates bike lanes for decades. Why? Because one nation is ruled by engineers, the other by lawyers.

Through riveting stories—from California’s $128 billion unfinished rail to China’s vast megaprojects and its human-costly “engineering mindset”—this talk dissects how two systems, born of genius and excess, became mirror opposites in governing the physical world.

What began as a comparison of infrastructure evolves into a reflection on civilization itself:
Can a lawyerly society still build?
And can an engineering state still care?

In this talk, you’ll learn:
🚄 Why China built 800 miles of rail in 3 years while California built a fraction in 17
⚖️ How the U.S. became paralyzed by “The Procedure Fetish” and regulatory gridlock
👷 Why Deng Xiaoping filled China’s leadership with engineers—and what it unleashed
💣 How Shenzhen became the world’s factory through “Process Knowledge”
🧮 The dark legacy of the One-Child Policy and Zero-Covid — engineering gone mad
🏗️ Why America must rediscover its lost “builder’s ethos” before it’s too late

This is not just geopolitics.
It’s a story about two civilizations—one obsessed with control, the other trapped in caution—and what it will take to reclaim the ability to build the future.