# Yuen Yuen Ang

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Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Update)

In this episode we first published in 2021, the political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption — and that the U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit.   SOURCES: Yuen Yuen Ang, professor of political science at …

28. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.

In his new book “Breakneck,” Dan Wang argues that the U.S. has a lot to learn from China. He also says that “no two peoples are more alike.” We have questions.   SOURCES: Dan Wang, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the…

China’s Gilded Age

Professor Yuen Yuen Ang joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski to discuss her book China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption and how it relates to China and the United States. In the Slate Plus segment: China’s future.  Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast prod…

Slate Money - China’s Gilded Age

Professor Yuen Yuen Ang joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski to discuss her book China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption and how it relates to China and the United States. In the Slate Plus segment: China’s future.  Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast prod…

Slate Money - China’s Gilded Age

Professor Yuen Yuen Ang joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski to discuss her book China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption and how it relates to China and the United States. In the Slate Plus segment: China’s future.  Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast prod…

Is China's economic success creating a domestic paradox?

China is producing advanced technologies at lightning speed, from AI to electric vehicles. But can rapid innovation translate into stronger domestic consumer confidence? CNA Senior China Editor and Senior Correspondent Olivia Siong joins Robin Pomeroy, Podcast Editor at Radio Davos, on this special…

AMNC26: Resisting Autarky

Tariffs, export controls and mechanisms such as investment screening have become central instruments of economic management. This is pushing strategic players to leverage their production of critical resources and the concentration of critical supply chain inputs. In an increasingly fractured econo…

China's Corrupt Meritocracy, with Yuen Yuen Ang

Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Portrayals of China’s political economy tend to be divided, with one side depicting it as a Confucian-style meritocracy, and the other arguing that the regime is a kleptocracy. In fact, neither view is correct…

Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China? (Update)

In this episode we first published in 2021, the political scientist Yuen Yuen Ang argues that different forms of government create different styles of corruption — and that the U.S. and China have more in common than we’d like to admit.  SOURCES: Yuen Yuen Ang, professor of political science at Jo…

647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.

In his new book “Breakneck,” Dan Wang argues that the U.S. has a lot to learn from China. He also says that “no two peoples are more alike.” We have questions.  SOURCES: Dan Wang, research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, author of Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the F…