"In 2015, Beijing made it a top priority for China to become globally competitive in robotics as part of its Made in China 2025 campaign to import fewer advanced manufactured goods.
Industries received almost unlimited access to loans from state-controlled banks at low interest rates, as well as help in buying foreign competitors, direct infusions of government money, and other assistance. And in 2021, the government issued a detailed national strategy for expanded deployment of robots."
Even if the EU or the US decided to catch up with China on robots, it would take years to replicate China's advantages. It has vast manufacturing supply chains and a huge number of highly experienced senior manufacturing staff. It takes years to build up things like this, and they come from having a real manufacturing base, making real things.
Meanwhile, the EU and the US don't even seem to realize how important this challenge is, let alone do they do anything about it.
Does this make the 2030s the decade China becomes the world's robot superpower, making millions, and then tens of millions of robots a year?
There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined