Books and thoughts for 2025

My reading this year involved a lot of China: I read Breakneck by Dan Wang, Apple in China by Patrick McGee and House of Huawei by Eva Dou. These books taught me that you’re sorely mistaken if you think China just copies things, it has become the factory of the world by learning processes that are embodied in its workforce and factories which can’t just be copied by stealing IP, though it has done…