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Andrew Mok

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    Andy writes from Beijing on technology, power, and the architecture of global order. Senior Research Fellow at CCG, previously RAND and Morningside Ventures. Author of The Innovation Machine (Springer Nature). Core Interests is what it sounds like.

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