Breakneck Meets the Trojan Economy: The Engineering State Behind the Chokepoints Comparative Political Economy & Industrial Strategy Series Breakneck Meets the Trojan Economy : The Engineering State Behind the Chokepoints Reading Dan Wang's account of China's "engineering state" against America's "lawyerly society" as the missing fourth layer beneath the Trojan Economy trilogy — the domestic governance machine that built the chokepoints, financed the BRI, and now feeds a defense buildup a lawyerly society keeps struggling to match, tested against the newest Bloomberg Intelligence and Bloomberg Politics data. Primary Source Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (W. W. Norton, 2025) Cross-References "The Trojan Economy," "The Emperor's New Road," and "The Second Eurasian Century," Avant-Garde, July...