Natalie Kitroff

And how does that compare to what you see in the rest of the world, to the rest of the world's factories?

How did China get to the point where it is more advanced at manufacturing than the U.S., than Germany, than Japan?

These are countries that were all known at one point for being manufacturing titans, for specializing in this.

How did China get here?

Essentially what you're saying is without immigration and with a rapidly falling birth rate, China just doesn't have enough bodies to sustain itself as the world's factory, especially as their ambitions are growing.

Why don't people want these jobs?

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I think if my teenagers were to have their own logins, we could share articles.

It doesn't let us play the same games as each other.

I do the crossword.

I do the wordle.

Okay, Keith, so what exactly does China do?

How did China become, I think it's fair to say, the automation capital of the world?

And why was there such an emphasis on robotics?

Just explain that to me.

So they're not just investing in building EVs or building planes or semiconductors.

They're investing in building factories and the equipment and the technology that you need to build all these other things.

Like building advanced factories was an end in and of itself.

And robotics, you're saying, was essential to that.

And so how did China execute this Made in China plan?