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China’s robotic lead.
Lacking a skilled labor pool, Trump officials and sycophants say that industrial robots are key to a US return to manufacturing might. But China’s already well on its way to automating production lines that make products faster and for less, in order to respond to tariffs and to supplant the labor gap created by a society that won’t work long factory hours anymore. According to data compiled by the International Federation of Robotics:
China installed 295,000 industrial robots last year, nearly nine times as many as the U.S. and more than the rest of the world combined.
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy
[The Wall Street Journal]
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