But the sons and daughters of those builders are growing up in a very different world from their parents.
There is widespread and growing discussion, for instance, of how to make Chinese society more equitable, green, urban and scientific.
China is undergoing a profound transition to a high-tech, highly educated, prosperous and powerful nation that its “builder generation” could only imagine.
And in frontier technologies like artificial intelligence, experts agree that a discussion without China amounts to the West talking to itself.
Californians, plagued by wildfires, know that there are more immediate threats to their way of life than China.
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