This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. China. Much in the news these last years, the Chinese miracle.

Chinese manufacturing. It needs an export in order to balance the books back home. But the manufacturing

party is of great interest. How do they

do it? All those machines moving in one direction to load up the container ships and sell.

I welcome John Kitch, assistant professor of instruction and assistant director of academic

experience in the School of Civic Leadership,

University of Texas at Austin, writing most recently at Civitas Outlook, the publication of

Civitas Institute, about a new book by Dan Wong entitled Breakneck about Chinese Manufacturing.

John, a very good evening to you.

There are no secrets here.

They work very hard.

They're roboticizing as much as possible.

However, I understand from your remarks about the book that Mr. Wang makes a distinction

about engineers and lawyers.

How so, John.

Good evening to you. Good evening to you,

John. It's great to be here with you. Wong's argument in brief is that the Chinese state is

dominated by engineers, both literally, the highest ranking members of the party over the last 40 or so

years, have all been trained as engineers.

And he contrasts that with American society and American political culture, which is dominated

by attorneys, by people that went to law school before they got into politics.

And that's sort of where he kicks off his comparative analysis.

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